Word: bastardizations
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...Taste for Shot. In writing of Jones's shoreside activities, Historian Morison is sometimes nearly as lubberly as was Paul Jones himself, e.g., he is positively precious in describing Jones's squalid love life, once wonders romantically about a Jones bastard: "Did the little fellow die in infancy? Or did he grow up and fight Napoleon under the English flag, or what?" But Samuel Eliot Morison has no peer in writing of war at sea, and nowhere is he finer than in his description of the meeting on Sept. 23, 1779 of Bonhomme Richard and H.M.S. Serapis...
...Basket, Mother -There'll Be No Show Tonight." Another begins: "Early this morning, somewhere in between my orange juice and my No. 1 concubine, I got to thinking about Toynbee Doob . . . He had an extra pinkie on each hand. When Toynbee drank tea he was the politest bastard in the county...
...Bastard Daughter. Though the Nationalist soldiers had fled, the Communists were not left without opponents. Let the Reds do their damnedest, boasted cocky Shanghailanders, we will change them before they change us. Big, brawling and unpredictable, the "bastard daughter of the West and China," proud of its reputation as the noisiest, wickedest, dirtiest and most vital city in the world, Shanghai was long accustomed to swift alternations of luck. Its quick-witted citizens viewed other Chinese as yokels. Though impressed by the discipline of the Red troops...
Easy Living concerns the escapades of two American expatriates who sleep in or about Paris and London. One, a bastard named only Wyeth, moves from bed to bed, uncaring and undiscriminating, seeking only to assuage a deep-down itch. His friend, Harry Steiner, is escaping from his middle-class Bronx past, from the squares back home, from his own terrible insecurity. They dig the easy life, the life of least resistance, the life of escape via jazz, junk, drink...
...Bastard? Slonimsky's sleuthing has also revealed that Liszt's great rival, Austrian Piano Virtuoso Sigismond Thalberg, was not, as he claimed to be, the bastard son of nobility (his real parents were Theodore Thalberg and Fortunee Stein, who may even have been married to each other); that Soprano Helen Traubel sliced four years off her age in her autobiography (she was born in 1899, not 1903); that the dates of Wagner's imprisonment for debt in Paris, a little matter omitted in Wagner's own accounts, were from...