Word: bastardly
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...high-minded 1914 romance between an aristocratic infantry subaltern (later killed) and the belle of a small industrial town. Brought up by his maternal grandparents after his shamed mother leaves town, little David finds out what he is when he is knocked down, kicked and called a bastard on his first day at school. When he is 18, his embittered grandfather dies, leaving him $500 and some advice: "Don't look for happiness, there isn't any such thing. Above all, don't expect it from women, they can't give what they haven...
...Children after 14 years' absence from the stage, addressed 300 students of journalism, was asked by one: "What made you come back to the theatre?" Said he: "I had a vision of my grandmother* and she told me: 'Go back to the boards where you belong, you bastard...
...baby have to move on again. Six weeks from the time he had been washed away, the convict gets back to the place where his journey began. "Yonder's your boat, and here's the woman," he tells the deputy sheriff. "But I never did find that bastard on the cotton house." The deputy and the warden repeating "Them convicts," slap another ten years on his sentence for trying to escape...
...classical ornaments knocked off. Modernistic extremes were lacking, but living-room furniture was scaled down in size, upholstery was in modernistic shades of blue and pink. Proud Grand Rapidans called Kentwood a "distinct American style, capable of change to suit a changing world." Purists grumbled that it was a bastard style, neither classic nor modern...
...little space: pictured the luxury of the court of Louis XV, who traveled to the front with innumerable servants, 600 horses and 28 cooks; given a glimpse of Voltaire and Madame de Pompadour at Etioles; sketched the life history of Maurice de Saxe (best character in the book), royal bastard and master of strategy, who had planned a battle at Fontenoy 13 years before, and on the day that it was fought, was carried, suffering from dropsy, to the battlefield in a chair...