Word: bastardization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dushan had renounced his royal birthright to marry an American, and now is dead. Milan, the present Crown Prince, who shoots horses out of his way rather than walk around them, is suspected of conniving with Italy to hand over the Tokar oilfields, is suspected of being a bastard as well. Prince Marko, a pretender, also threatens to make the Illyrian throne rock as soon as the huge, aging Stephan steps down...
...money to satisfy the girl's father; but grandmother lets him wait. When her simple-minded hired man Curly gets drunk, attacks one of the boys who tease his addled wits, grandmother will not allow the family to shut him up. Curly was her husband's bastard; she had raised him. Gradually Amy is drawn into the family affairs; the memory of her own troubles begins to fade. When grandmother dies, her own troubles look unreal. Geoffrey comes out for the funeral. He has tried to cure his marital troubles by an affair with voluptuous Nina. After...
...success of the team has been demonstrated; we have a new and worthy child. Are we, then, to turn an old Eli trick and "leave a bastard son on the stops of Durfy"? Or are we to befriend and act as a father to this little fellow who is, after all, such a likeable and deserving chap...
...Lossiemouth, Scotland on Oct. 12, 1866 at 11:30 p. m. the future Prime Minister was born to Miss Anne Ramsay. Patient investigators can still see the birth certificate attesting him a bastard in the Parish Registry at Drainie. In signing the certificate Miss Ramsay termed herself a "domestic servant," called her son "James MacDonald Ramsay." Later the boy was called James Ramsay MacDonald. Today the British Who's Who explains that his father was "J. MacDonald...
Some Speakers have put up a good fight, have actually been dragged scuffling and kicking to the exalted Chair. But Captain Fitzroy is of the blood royal, proud of his bastard descent from a Stuart King. When Sir George and Mr. Thorne made as though to lay hands on him, Speaker Fitzroy waved them back once, then walked between them while the whole House cheered to his presiding seat. From under the Speaker's Table, Sergeant-at-Arms Admiral Sir Colin Keppel produced the mighty, gleaming Mace and laid it thereon. Right glad was Sir Colin, who failed to prevent...