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...officials soon learned that their seclusion, their secretive official air did not sit well. On the conference's opening day, Molotov and Andrei Gromyko, the Soviet Ambassador to Washington, must have overheard the rude remarks of newsmen waiting with them for an elevator in the Fairmont Hotel: "Those bastard Russians!"; "Did you hear how so-&-so got the brushoff?" Gromyko speaks and understands English; Molotov does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: The Russians | 5/7/1945 | See Source »

...German soldiers facing the 4th Armored were told (according to a captured document): each American had qualified for the Division by proving that 1) he had been born a bastard, 2) he had murdered his mother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Race to the River | 3/19/1945 | See Source »

...really believe that? I myself have always believed that Washington, Jefferson, Patrick Henry and James Monroe (Virginians all) had some small part in establishing "the essential faith of America." And the Jamaica-born bastard Alexander Hamilton of New York, the illiterate pirate Andrew Jackson of Tennessee, the ribald Abraham Lincoln of Kentucky and Illinois, the uncouth Walt Whitman of Brooklyn-did these have no part in the work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 26, 1945 | 2/26/1945 | See Source »

...sporting, aristocratic Virginia Bolinvars. Hugo looked like a Greek god and glittered with "inner fires." He owned a magnificent estate jampacked with foxhounds and liveried "darkies . . . with mirthful grins." Hugo was loved by "the most beautiful girl in ... all the South." But he was afraid that he was a bastard. He could not ask his mother about it because his father had murdered her years ago. So Hugo was ashamed to marry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Big Fox | 12/25/1944 | See Source »

...Scottie broke into our conversation at this point with "Come on, yer Nazi bastard-save yer talk fer later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: LOCAL ACTION | 12/18/1944 | See Source »

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