Word: bastardly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...habit of undermining popular respect for the opposition by the use of picturesque epithet is as old as the nation. I can think of many real classics stretching all the way back to Washington's Administration, when John Adams referred to Alexander Hamilton as that "little West Indian bastard." . . . To hold F.D.R. responsible for McCarthy because F.D.R. had striking success in stigmatizing his opponents seems to me to overlook the long history of political invective, and to ignore the real (and much more dangerous) roots of McCarthyism...
...Sack speaks to us in not one but nine languages on the pages of this dreary little treatise. There are passages in English, French, Spanish, Dutch, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Latin, and a bastard tongue called Talkie-talkie; phrases like "non, ce n'etait pas moi" (French) and 'nihongo wa wakarimasu ka (Japanese, perhaps) go untranslated; and even when he keeps to English, Mr. Sack uses words like tarsier, euphoria, and hematemesis. The reader might well ask: what is Mr. Sack trying to hide? The answer can be found in chapter 19, if one has the idleness or stamina to read...
...Rubinstein arrived in the U.S. with a Portuguese passport which he had obtained in Shanghai for $2,000. He swore later that he was the bastard result of a premarital liaison between his mother, a Portuguese citizen (she was not) and his father, and was therefore entitled to citizenship under a Portuguese law protecting the love children of natives. Brother André promptly sued for defamation of their mother's character...
...LILIES, by Alfred Duggan (278 pp.; Coward-McCann; $3.50), finds a veteran historical novelist taking the field for the English against France in the time of bad King John. Lady Margaret fitzGerold, a highborn widow, is forced into an unwelcome marriage with Sir Falkes de Brealte, a Norman bastard and the best crossbowman in all England. Margaret, a practical woman of 14, runs Falkes's castle, appreciates his long absences from home, and is only mildly annoyed when he scolds her for lowering the drawbridge too slowly. Lady Margaret survives the harrowing siege of Bedford and the fall...
...courtroom Broun's biographer, Dale Kramer, offered his hand to Pegler, was rebuffed when Pegler thundered:"I don't want to shake hands with you. You're a bastard." "You're the same, " answered Kramer. Pegler hastily summoned a court attendant, pointed at Kramer and said: "This man was threatening me." Then the two were haled into the judge's chamber and ordered not to speak to one another again in the courthouse...