Word: bastardize
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...baby was born, died. M. Allemand-the only one who knew-forced his hand, won the girl for his wife, thus vastly increasing his social status. But by that time he had become village librarian and Mme Bourrat devised a theory that he was the bastard son of a noble, thereby salving her own social consciousness and impressing her relatives. As for the girl-she would have been happy to marry anyone...
...Dunois, Bastard of Orleans, defeated the English, and with the aid of Joan of Arc saved France for King Charles VII. Last week Princess Charlotte, illegitimate and adopted daughter of the Prince of Monaco, rose from her sickbed at Nice and saved Monaco for Prince Louis...
Caprice. "Life is so much easier," says the dyspeptic but incorrigibly playful Albert Von Echardt, "when you have a great many ties to choose from." He communicated this illuminating morsel of information to his bastard son, poetic and bumptious youth of 16, whom he was meeting for the first time. Albert had in fact been unaware of his child's existence until its mother, a somewhat charming though intensely idealistic creature, whom he had once betrayed and since forgotten, visited him. The purpose of her visit was to ask that Robert be permitted to live with his father...
Only her husband's solicitor knows this and when it appears that the bastard, now grown into a beautiful girl, is about to marry a handsome member of the Dedlock clan, he croaks his intention of squealing. He has gained his information by the aid of Hortense, a maid, who has good sense and a bad temper...
...LITTLE ACCIDENT-In which a journey to a maternity hospital and the birth of a bastard lead lightly to a kind conclusion; even the play is a natural (TIME...