Word: bastardize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...These days . . . there is a lawyer hidden behind every girdle," one of the party warned Shamus. But soon Shamus and Cleo were bucking a storm of love and hate that swept them like a typhoon. On one occasion, Shamus drenched her with seawater. "You bastard," she muttered. When Shamus took a moonlight swim in the buff, Cleo tossed off her "intimate garments" and plunged after him. "The water was just above her waist. Facing him, she threw her arms out wide. 'Look at me,' she challenged, her head high. 'Don't you want...
...rape and sudden death scarcely stir the branches of this moss-hung family tree. Only uncultured Huey Long's drooling henchman is really outraged by the discovery that the heir to Belle Heloise is not his father's son, but his father's sister's bastard. Even stern Madame Mere accommodates herself wisely to the marriage of her daughter to the son of The River Road's "Dago peddler" (who becomes a millionaire purveyor of fancy groceries), and her granddaughter's marriage to the pilot of a river tug. For under the conventions...
Sometimes Lillian could glimpse the notorious "Widder Woman," dressed only in corset and drawers, prancing drunkenly to the pawnshop with the blanket she had stripped from her bastard son, who was dying of consumption. Sometimes Lillian could hear Red, Lem, Butch and Shorty Clapp exchanging local gossip. Others whom Lillian wondered about include: Lawyer Pettigrew, an ambitious politician who had seduced pretty Meg Taylor in the underbrush; Schoolmarm Fisher, who had a lurid mother complex; Rufe Albright, who frolicked in the barn with fat Fanny Rhimer; and precocious young Gregory Beamer, who persuaded Lillian's adolescent sister to bathe...
...Well, tell me," said the officer, "who's that old grey-haired bastard who gets up and plays with the band...
...could be heard all over the suddenly quiet club. His bleary eyes fell upon my guest of the evening, Russian Senior Lieut. Anton Pablov. Making his way towards our table, the American officer shouted at the top of his lungs: 'Come on out and fight, you raping bastard...