Word: bastardizes
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...started to push in. Passing the man in the cage he stopped; it reminded him of coming out again, with the book. What book? Why get it? You don't need it, he realized. You don't need any books at all. Vag, you dumb bastard, after the orals there's nothing more, you're done, you don't need the book at all. He looked long and very sadly at the man in the cage and started diagonally--it was the only way--down the stairs...
When Detroit's policeman-censor threatened to close Eugene O'Neill's A Moon for the Misbegotten unless the actors stopped saying certain words, the words were just quietly dropped. Detroiters would no longer suffer the psychic trauma of: 1) "whore," 2) "bastard," 3) "God damn," 4) "son of a bitch," and 5) "blonde...
Jove Is Serene. Youthful Hero Arkady Dolgoruky (who tells the story) is the abandoned bastard son of an aristocratic father and a serf girl. Arkady is ambitious to make himself "not simply rich, but as rich as Rothschild." Once he has become a multimillionaire, Arkady reckons, he will be able to afford the two things he most craves: a life apart from the contemptible world, and a sublime sense of power. "With the thunderbolts in his hands," Arkady poetically muses, "Jove is serene...
...eardrum and his appendix, went back to gourmandizing, and has felt fine ever since. Saturday nights, after drinks, a steam bath, a rubdown and dinner at the Kansas City Club, he goes back to work: "so the rest of the staff can't say that the big fat bastard is loafing...
Laughter from the Galleries. Brewster was interested in Tydings' comment on "this measure being of a bastard parentage." He thought it was rather strong language, "particularly as the origin of the committee was in the gentleman who is now President of the United States." He recalled that 13 Democrats had voted against the reorganization act-"with the spirit of which they are now so much concerned"-and 17 were not interested enough to show up for the vote. On the other hand, he recalled, 23 Republicans had voted for the measure...