Word: bastardly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Said Hubert: "Hello, Jack. What's this I hear? Have you been cutting me up again?" Replied Kennedy with a smile: "Not me, Hubert. Why, just last night I told a group that you would make an excellent President-but you could never be elected." Grinned Hubert: "You bastard...
...good at both. His worst words are reserved not for the tough screws but for two unpleasant fellow prisoners called James and Dale: "I was no country Paddy from the middle of the Bog of Allen to be frightened to death by a lot of Liverpool seldom-fed bastards . . . No, be Jesus, I was from Russell Street, North Circular Road, Dublin, from the Northside where, be Jesus, the likes of Dale wouldn't make a dinner for them, where the whole of this pack of Limeys would be scruff-hounds would be et, bet, and threw up again...
...myself," he says cheerfully. Joe Louis and Billy Conn are among his cronies, and Carmen Basilic, onetime middleweight champion, is a hero. "Oh, that Basilio!" he enthuses. "Did you see the way his lamp went out in that last Robinson fight? Why, he's all guts. That little bastard will never go hungry as long as I'm eating...
...wife will be free to practice a profession, even it her husband says no. She will not have to marry against her will or live with her in-laws. Her husband will no longer be able to be unfaithful with impunity, nor will he be allowed to take his bastard children into the house as if they were legitimate, or repudiate his wife at whim. A married man, seen too often in the company of an unmarried woman, is apt to find himself having to explain his conduct to the authorities. In the first version of the bill, divorce...
...selfish barbarian, and a bit of a paranoiac as well. His creator views him with a bracingly cool eye, never veiling him in a romantic haze, never losing his objectivity, explaining but not excusing. Since the author never loses sight of the fact that his hero is a "bloody bastard," the audience can hate Jimmy Porter without being annoyed at the author or the play...