Word: bastardly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bastard Daughter. Though the Nationalist soldiers had fled, the Communists were not left without opponents. Let the Reds do their damnedest, boasted cocky Shanghailanders, we will change them before they change us. Big, brawling and unpredictable, the "bastard daughter of the West and China," proud of its reputation as the noisiest, wickedest, dirtiest and most vital city in the world, Shanghai was long accustomed to swift alternations of luck. Its quick-witted citizens viewed other Chinese as yokels. Though impressed by the discipline of the Red troops...
Easy Living concerns the escapades of two American expatriates who sleep in or about Paris and London. One, a bastard named only Wyeth, moves from bed to bed, uncaring and undiscriminating, seeking only to assuage a deep-down itch. His friend, Harry Steiner, is escaping from his middle-class Bronx past, from the squares back home, from his own terrible insecurity. They dig the easy life, the life of least resistance, the life of escape via jazz, junk, drink...
...weeks Braithwaite's students met him with indifference or open hostility. They learned little, muttered about the "bleeding cheek" of the "black bastard" when he corrected them. Couples necked openly in the halls, sullenly waited as he passed to begin again...
...Bastard? Slonimsky's sleuthing has also revealed that Liszt's great rival, Austrian Piano Virtuoso Sigismond Thalberg, was not, as he claimed to be, the bastard son of nobility (his real parents were Theodore Thalberg and Fortunee Stein, who may even have been married to each other); that Soprano Helen Traubel sliced four years off her age in her autobiography (she was born in 1899, not 1903); that the dates of Wagner's imprisonment for debt in Paris, a little matter omitted in Wagner's own accounts, were from...
...Chicago Theater. Next morning, mildly conscience-stricken, Adler went around to explain. He walked in on a telephone conversation. "But I didn't send you a wire!" Lipstone was shouting. Then he saw the harmonica player. He covered the mouthpiece and asked: "Did you, you little bastard?" Adler nodded. Lipstone turned to the phone. "Yeah, that's right," he said. "The kid's great...