Word: bastardly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Chesterfield took a dim view of women generally; he felt their proper function was "to suckle fools and chronicle small beer." But in an age of high manners and low morals, it was chic to have a mistress, even more chic to sire a bastard. The earl had both...
...Caracas' Miraflores Palace the bandit morals of the 19th Century caudillos he admired, the manners of the peon he was, the behavior of the bulls he raised. The nation's treasury and the nation's women were his; he liked to share these boons with his bastard brothers and with the 100 or so bastard sons he sired...
...explode in cylinders, in making engines turn faster and faster . . . Genuine inspiration is stifled before it can bear fruit." ¶ Negro sculpture, Negro art, jazz, syncopated rhythm, contorted forms, flattened shapes-all this has become a slogan . . . The so-called renaissance of modern art is nothing more than a bastard arrangement of Negro art. In order to recover their youth, the elite of our civilization, who no longer have anything to say . . . have grasped greedily at the art of these alleged savages." ¶ "Abstract painters have betrayed painting and, after killing it, have shut it up in a cubist coffin...
...pushed over and went into the attack. Red tracers thudded into his plane.The engine sprayed cooling fluid, began to overheat. Major Sebille's wingman radioed him to turn back. "I'll never make it," the C.O. answered calmly, "I'm going back and get that bastard." Then, with all six guns blazing, Sebille dived straight into the Communist column; his plane exploded in a blossom of flame...
...first husband's family because they "interfere" with the way she is raising her daughter; actually, she hates them because their natural friendliness is a living reproach to her unnatural hostility. She hates the hired boy on Martin's farm because, she says, he is a foundling bastard; truth is, she hates him because Martin loves him, because she needs every last breath of Martin's approval to keep her bubble full-blown...