Word: bastardizes
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...were hauled from their seats by police when other efforts to eject them failed. In an attempt to make debate more seemly, Speakers of the past have banned "grossly insulting language" and the use of such words as villain, hypocrite, murderer, insulting dog, swine, Pecksniffian cant, cheat, stoolpigeon and bastard. In the 1880s, one Charles Bradlaugh was refused his seat because he was an avowed atheist. When Bradlaugh tried to take it anyway, he battled ten Bobbies to a draw until he fainted from his exertions...
...Italian practice of "stable concubinage," the registration papers of at least a million Italian children were marked with an "N.N." (for Nemini Notus, meaning roughly "Not known to anyone") that stamped the children for life. Finally a law was passed in 1955 erasing the demeaning stamp from every bastard's official documents...
...assumes that Nothing but a Man is a movie that "describes what life is like for an average Negro in America" [Jan. 15]. Contrary to his belief, the so-called average Negro family does not consist of a man who never knew his father and who has had a bastard son of his own! I am a Negro myself, but I would never assume to judge what comprises the so-called average American Negro myself. How the hell can TIME...
...young Negro-too proud to truckle, too smart to fight-who is working as a section hand on the railroad and pretending he doesn't really want to live the way the white folks do. He never knew his father, he hasn't seen his bastard son for at least two years, and he can't see why he should get stuck with a black family as well as a black skin. Then one day he meets a pretty schoolteacher (Abbey Lincoln), daughter of the town's principal Negro preacher. They fall in love, and against...
...granddaughters, romanticizing Audubon's own embellished accounts, implied that he might have been France's "lost Dauphin"-the son of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, whom she tried to smuggle out of France just before she died on the guillotine. John Audubon was, in fact, the bastard son of a Breton-born chambermaid, and was sired not at Versailles but in Haiti in 1785. The father was Jean Audubon, a captain of French merchantmen and men-of-war. Though he commanded a corvette in Count de Grasse's fleet at the surrender of Yorktown in 1781, Jean...