Word: bastardized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...speak Greek but told me he learned it at school and he was the only one in Piana dia Greci who knew it. Everyone else was a descendant of the first colony of Albanian Greeks who came there during the war in 1488 and spoke Italian or a bastard Greek, which no Athenian could understand today. Then he gave me goat's milk and blessed me; asked me to take his picture, and so I did. Thus endeth my great trip adventure of exploration, a sad failure. But tomorrow I go to Syracuse to whistle in Dionysius' Ear, see Venus...
...Vienna, Ferdinand Kurt Hahn, an impoverished and crippled bastard, won a court order raising to $65 per month his allowance from his half-brother Duke Maximilian von Hohenberg, legitimate son & heir of the late Archduke Franz Ferdinand (Sarajevo, June...
...famed but unpublishable ballad, The Bastard King of England, generally credited to Kipling, is supposed to have cost him the post of Poet Laureate...
...assignments. The "Third Party Bloc," consisting this year of seven Progressives from Wisconsin, one from California and five Farmer-Laborites from Minnesota, flew into a rage at the Majority for not giving them assignments to important committees as members of a third party. Instead the Majority treated them as "bastard Democrats," assigned them to committees along with other Democrats at the tail end of the Majority's assignment. Hardly had this storm blown over when the Minority brought on another. The Republicans granted William Lemke, who ran for President on the Union Party ticket, and his colleague from North...
...spots the Corpo invasion from afar. Jessup's love affair with her is played down to the point where it might pass as platonic. Much more faithful to the original are the characters of Effingham Swan, hairy-handed but carefully-manicured Corpo commander who says, "Just take the bastard out and shoot him, will you?", and of the Jessups' lazy, loud mouthed hired man who embraces Corpoism early because he wants 1) to show his kindly employers that he is as good a man as they; 2) a gaudy uniform; 3) the glittering income promised by President Berzelius...