Word: bastardly
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...just read as far as p. 13 in it. Received quite a shock and am protesting against what I think is an unkind term. The article in question is the one about Mrs. Muench. Very last word. You speak of the infant as "a Pennsylvania servant girl's bastard!" And I ask you-is that nice...
...dorsal lip of the blastopore, is where the cells which eventually form the body begin to take special form. He has transplanted a bit of dorsal lip from one egg to the blastopore of a different kind of egg, watched the egg develop as if it were the bastard of some primitive miscegenation. The usefulness of Dr. Spemann's researches is remote...
Died. Charles Henry Gordon-Lennox. 64, eighth Duke of Richmond, Lennox, Gordon and D'Aubigny, head of a house founded by a bastard son of King Charles II and the Duchess of Portsmouth; at Goodwood, England. Lord of 250,000 acres (including famed Goodwood race track and a forest in which, traditionally, no birds lived), he was crippled by spinal meningitis during the War, got about in a nifty wheel chair...
...tobacco, paid almost nobody honest wages except the over-sized army of 2,500. He toadied to Washington and, in short, applied the usual formula of Caribbean tyranny. He has an armor-plated Packard car with facsimile field guns for fender lamps, a toothsome white mistress* and their bastard child who has a colonel's rank and colonel's pay. He has been happy but for two annoyances...
Last week the New York Legislature gave further aid to those of anonymous ancestry. Hereafter, if Governor Herbert Lehman signs the bill, when a bastard is born in New York State his mother, midwife or other informed party must inscribe a surname on the birth certificate. The child's mother, if she pleases, may assume the same fictitious last name. Only stipulation in the pending New York law: the unwed mother may not use the "name of any known living male...