Word: bastardize
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...plenty of other masterpieces to remind the public of the treasury of Old Masters still in private hands in Manhattan. Among them: Castagno's Portrait of a Young Man, lent by J. P. Morgan; another young man, by Botticelli, lent by Clarence Hungerford Mackay; Fouquet's John, Bastard of Orleans, lent by William Goldman...
...condoning bastardy, North Dakota and Arizona are the most liberal States in the Union. Every child born on their soil is considered legitimate. At the other end of the legal spectrum are Texas, Louisiana and Virginia which forbid a local bastard to search out his father...
...angle, stand Massachusetts and California which help a bastard out by not requiring a statement of his illegitimacy on his birth certificate. When he signs up for college, applies for a job or supplies a statement for Who's Who, he can omit parental names and pretend that he has made a decision to go on record as the founder of a family without ancestors...
Lick-lip melodrama from the word go. Paprika unrolls a rapid narrative of gypsy love, fistfights, Budapest night life, drunken officers, and a plethora of bedroom scenes. Paprika was the platinum-blonde bastard of a Hungarian nobleman and a gypsy queen. She grew up in the same wagon with Rogi, a young fiddler who loved her well. Paprika loved him too. but she was a wayward girl, and took delight in making him suffer. Unable to take it any longer, Rogi went off to Budapest, where he made a sensation as a musician and became the kept...
...Bertaud property after her death. Marlise is still unable to share her control of monies, mortgages, farmland. She has an instinctive realization that she will outlive her son, who wilts and dies in his 50's without ever daring to tell Marlise of his mistress and his bastard son, Remy...