Word: bastardization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bastard: freshmen 8%, seniors 20%, faculty 39%, men 12%, women...
...declared legitimate the son which the bride bore the bridegroom three years ago. The annulment of the Prince's earlier marriage was on the ground that he and his first Princess made and kept a pre-nuptial pact to have no children. Thus the child which was a bastard for three years now is a legitimate Prince von Starhemberg, aristocratic to his baby fingertips...
Quiet, exclusive, they will live by themselves, speaking bastard languages, growing fat, tending their flowers. Backwoods people, they live in the city of Allentown Queen of the Lehigh Valley, population about...
...they were done for his countrymen. Born in Zagreb, ancient capital of Croatia, Maximilian Vanka grew up with peasants, did not discover until he was a young man that he was an illegitimate son of a noble family. As a fachook (noble bastard) young Maximilian belonged to a well-recognized caste in Croatia under the gay regime of Austria's Emperor Franz Joseph. His upper-class connections enabled him to study art at the Royal Academy of Zagreb and then at the Brussels Academy of Fine Arts, which awarded him its first prize and gold medal for composition...
...CARDINAL OF THE MEDICI-Susan Hicks Beach-Macmillan ($3). Long (411-page), impressively documented novel of the Medici, related as the reminiscences of the nameless mother of bastard Ippolito, a Cardinal at 19, whose precocious career was terminated at 25 by poison...