Word: bastardize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Born in Munich, Viereck arrived in the U.S. at the age of eleven, went to college, became a naturalized citizen, leaped into letters. His first small fame bloomed with publication of a book of poetry, grew a little brighter because of a story that his father was the bastard son of William I of Prussia, which would make him Kaiser Wilhelm's cousin...
...bastard . . . unfair . . . slave-driver...
...paced the deck of the imperial yacht that summer evening in 1908, the Kaiser must have recalled Clovis the Frank, who carved a kingdom out of Gaul and South Germany in the 5th Century; and of Pepin the Young and his bastard son Charles Martel, statesmen rather than warlords, who founded the Carolingian Dynasty, the greatest ever to rule Germany. And of Charles the Great Carolingian, whose Empire stretched from the Elbe to the Ebro...
Buzzard (too similar in sound to bastard...
...Army book, first when the columns are marching, is still You're in the Army Now. > Unfit to print for the 1941 Army was Mad'moiselle from Armentières. Soldiers with a yen for back-room balladry will have to get along with a laundered, abbreviated Bastard King of England (retitled The Minstrels Sing of an English King) and a sanitized Colombo (borrowed from the Book of Navy Songs...