Word: bastardize
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...slapped him sharply across the face, turned to the commanding medical officer who had come in when he heard Patton's high-pitched imprecations. "I want you to get that man out of here right away. I won't have these other brave boys seeing such a bastard babied...
Beard's defense of Alexander Hamilton is typical of Beard's shift in emphasis. It is true, says Beard, that Hamilton thought of the "people" as a "great beast." But in The Federalist the "bastard brat of a Scotch peddler" (as John Adams called Hamilton) hailed the Constitution as a "people's document." The privilege of the "writ of habeas corpus," which guarantees individuals and groups against arbitrary imprisonment, covered everybody, not merely the "rich, wellborn and able." At one point in the symposium on "A More Perfect Union and Justice," Dr. Smyth tries to get Beard...
Inevitably, high purpose was outvoted by low comedy: the salty songs roared by men away from women. Some are as topical as Tunisia, some such timeless bottle-bellowings as Cristofor Colombo, The Tattooed Lady and The Bastard King of England, all with well-scrubbed lyrics save for the commoner low-voltage expletives...
...send the bastard...
...Shoot the bastard, we can't wait here all day," a soldier growled...