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...caddishness, scurrilous, vicious vulgar, dishonest, swine, corrupt, criminal, blether (as applied to a speech), Pecksniffian cant. Last week the fifteenth edition of "Erskine May" was published; it showed four new epithets barred since the war's end: not a damned one of you opposite, stool pigeons, cheat, bastard...
Coak, who speaks only a bastard calypso, has predicted mango and artichoke plagues with 94 percent accuracy since he was burned for wizardry...
...life story which in the Negro slums of Chester, Pa.: "I never was a child. . . I was born out of wedlock. . . By the time I was seven, I knew all there was to know about sex and could outcurse any steveore. . .I knew that I was a bastard and what that meant. I've never in my whole life minded being a bastard. I've always found it can work both ways. If I wanted pity, I got it because I was illegitimate. And when I didn't want it and was mean and nasty, I always...
Waltari's adventurer, Michael Bast, the bastard of a Finnish strumpet, has been brought up by a middle-aged witch who lies in bed at night and sighs with desire for the local hangman. In this school of adversity Michael learns little of life, grows up to be a sort of cross between Candide and Lanny Budd. He is the kind of young man who gets seduced time & again without quite realizing what is going on, who gives his money to rascals for safekeeping, who signs a paper which helps to prove his wife a witch because a nice...
Instead, The Black Rose devotes much of its footage to an unlikely romance between Power, as the self-exiled bastard son of a Norman earl, and a prattling slave girl-played by plump-cheeked young (20) French Starlet Cecile Aubry as if she were a fugitive from Little Women. Power's odyssey through Asia with a stuffy fellow exile (British Actor Jack Hawkins) is sandwiched between long, talky sequences picturing Norman-Saxon strife in England. And from time to time the film wanders off on little verbal jags to point up its sentimental moral: that...