Word: bastardly
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...young playwrights who label their dramas with such matter-of-fact simplicity. In this case, it is a story of four maiden sisters of the heavily-upholstered convention-corseted '90s. Two of them have secretly wed the same rascal. One is recognized as wife; the other bears a bastard son. This black thread in their life's pattern is accompanied by the incessant nagging of the wizened humpbacked sister. In the spinsters' parlor-desert their scandal festers almost to the end. The dreariness of their tragedy is incongruously shattered by Marie Carroll, who, as the worm-eaten...
...Mine. Some 17 years ago, when a primitive U. S. cinema public chewed peanuts in its motion picture palaces, Roscoe Conkling ("Fatty") Arbuckle started on his way to fame. Like other actors, he preferred what was then the greater glory and emolument of the legitimate stage to the comparatively bastard screen. Baby Mine was his first vehicle (in stock company). In 1910, they say, it was a smart and even froward thing. In 1927, it looks like a bustle in a Shubert show. Mr. Arbuckle enacts a pulpy mass who alternately stews in sweaty fear and freezes in gelatinous embarrassment...
...Brewster's story, "The Chimney", featured on the cover, demands more attention than its slightness would seem to warrant. Although the writer has managed to introduce, in three pages, a leering wink, beef-stew, fornication, apple-pie, a bastard child, a curly maple bed, a drunken farmer, and twins, the result hardly justifies the material. It is only fair to add, however, that one of the twins died. In "Hero-Worship", Mr. Coolidge loosely strings together four anecdotes, told in a straightforward manner that redeems them from what might become fatuity in less steady hands. This is followed...
...clothes of a style fashionable in Japan centuries ago. Their teeth were blackened for beauty; they ate only fruit and vegetables. Archaeologists calculated that they must be descendants of a clan called Heike which was driven into the mountains in the 11th Century by Genji, amorous but warlike royal bastard, whose biography* has lately been appearing in English, translated by scholarly Arthur Waley...
...bastard metal" element, brittle, reddish white, mined in the free state in Saxony, Bohemia, Cornwall. Bolivia. Its best known use is as bismuth subnitrate, a therapeutic for dyspepsia and diarrhea. Taken internally with water the white powder slowly forms nitric acid, a powerful antiseptic. Its physical properties make it astringent, good for nausea...