Word: bastardly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heady, dark brews of French intellectualism, from the Marquis de Sade to Jean Paul Sartre. Denise was the ardent disciple of them all, a girl so enamored of the intellectual life and so prone to bedding with students that she soon found herself the mother of a bastard child. Her lover Jacques had already fathered two bastards by the time they met, and his approach to women was always patterned on that of his intellectual idols. "In the manner of Gide," he would tell a susceptible girl, "I offer you fervor...
...opposition from some Southern delegations, who wanted cotton, tobacco, wheat, rice and peanuts supported at a rigid 90% of parity. The vote was 124-39 for flexibility. Drawled E. H. Agnew, South Carolina cotton farmer who had helped lead the defeated Southerners: "It's like being a bastard at a family reunion and a skunk at a wedding reception...
JEAN, COUNT OF DUNOIS, Bastard of Orleans: "When we were in her company, we had no wish or desire to approach or have intercourse with women. That seems to me to be almost a miracle...
Died. Maurice Utrillo, 71, famed French painter of Paris street scenes and landscapes; of pneumonia; in Dax, France. Born in Montmartre, Utrillo was the bastard son of talented, scatterbrained Suzanne Valadon, who had worked as a circus acrobat, a model for Toulouse-Lautrec and Renoir, and was later a top painter herself. An heir to the worst ills of bohemianism (legend has it that he was fathered by Renoir, Degas, or an alcoholic paint dauber named Boissy), Utrillo drank absinthe in his teens, was an alcoholic at 18, began painting in 1902 at the behest of his mother to keep...
...flirtations (not a bedroom scene in 930 pages) from baronet's wife to duchess, while Grace's son parlays a naval career into a knighthood. After much 19th century history drifts by like a Bristol fog, Carboy's great-grandson and Grace's great-grand-bastard reconstitute the old partnership. In the end, of course, it is Nell, the groom's daughter, who wins. She dies after giving every tuppence to the poor...