Word: bastardizes
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This little song. The Bastard King of England, sturdy Kipling friends claim he never wrote and it is omitted from his Collected Works. A better reason and more probable for not making him Poet Laureate was that in such an official post it is safer for the United Kingdom to have someone who confines himself to "poetic themes" and does not lash out with infuriated honesty at Boches, the Yankees and the cinema...
Pete was thought to be the bastard of Old Man Bayliss, soundly-hated lumber tycoon who ground his workers' faces in the sawdust and worse. Pete was even suspected of being Bayliss' spy. When a lumberman was killed because of faulty machinery, Pete, who was handy, came in for a thoroughly popular licking. Pete took it and said nothing, but when he had proved his paternity he went on to show his brotherhood by joining the workers fight against Boss Bayliss. Mario, the Filipino who had beaten Pete, was almost killed by vigilantes. But the organization...
...bastard," said Lawyer John W. Davis, "sired by Indolence (he by Ignorance) out of Dubiety. Against such let all honest men protest...
...dictatorship a la Mussolini. . . . Its enemies are Communism and Free Masonry. (Here I remind you that Free Masonry in France has no resemblance to the very fine organization of the same name in other parts of the world. American and English Free Masons are forbidden to recognize this bastard branch of France to whose activities many dark pages in French history can be traced.) . . . Fascism is only the label given this fine organization by its enemies - a false statement to spread unjust propaganda. . . . EVELYNE GREIG Paris, France...
...could better call the father a bastard for the dictionary defines: "Bastard, n. a child begotten and born out of wedlock; an animal of low breed...