Word: bastardizes
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...leap-dancing and yelling around a campfire. During the evening Fuller-Sandys had a chance to open a letter delivered to him earlier in the day. Bearing neither return address nor signature, it said, "You bloody white Kaffir, what a disgrace to the country you are . . . Your beloved black bastard isn't even good looking." He read the note, then handed it to his bride. After a moment, she replied quietly: 'Tt doesn't matter, dear...
...dead the old bastard-he's a bastard because there's nothing legitimate in him any more...
...running scared, that's what's wrong. The trouble is we're in an age of labor leaders. They're looking toward retirement and they want to be labor statesmen. I saw George Meany on Meet the Press and I felt sorry for the poor bastard. He's pathetic...
...weapons motor cars." Then, in a spirit of charity, he re-edited "piddling" to "dull," and the international crisis eased. British names endlessly amuse him. perhaps because he himself is known as "Boofy" and sometimes as "Bonkers" Gore. "One of the oldest families in England is called Bastard," he wrote. "That must take quite a lot of living down. Moreover, it might easily lead to confusion. 'My mother was a Bastard,' though true, would be not only misleading, but seemingly disrespectful...
...errors of style that plague scholars who wish to entertain, is astonishingly rich in anecdote. Charlemagne was obsessed with his poor handwriting, constantly practiced it as he traveled over his lands in the royal coach. Charles's son, Louis the Pious, began his reign by banishing his three bastard sisters to a convent, later blinded his nephew, Italy's 18-year-old King Bernard, for plotting revolt. But afterwards Louis fell into a remorse from which he never fully recovered. His son, Charles the Bald, was the prisoner of fatal impulsiveness: while revolt flickered along all France...