Word: bastardization
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Christians violent in action, grim of conscience. In this instalment old Hero Olav has withered into the sere & yellow, but he is still master in his own house, who can save himself much speech by an occasional frown. Unconfessed sins have darkened Olav's mind. His dead wife's bastard son. Eirick, is a living reminder of the murder of his wife's betrayer. Eirick, son avenger of the title, never learns the secret of his birth, but he and his supposed father are continually running foul of each other. Eirick comes home from his wild-oats sowing...
...Senator Magnus Johnson, stentorian Farmer-Laborite for a Senate seat. Johnson lifted his enormous voice to charge that Schall had been elected by fraud, that 'leggers had financed his campaign. The Senate investigated, found Schall elected. He proclaimed: ''Enemies referred to me as a damned blind bastard, not because I am blind but because my conscience sees. . . . Since I was a little boy I have earned my own living. I am a self-made man. It may be a poor...
Henri's father, whom he always disliked and later spoke of usually as "the bastard," was a royalist who escaped the fury of the French Revolution only because he was a citizen of out-of-the-way Grenoble. There Henri was born in 1783, and naturally grew up as a republican, to pique his father. He was difficult, even as a child. When told to kiss the plump cheek of a grown-up female relative, he bit it. His mother's death, when he was 5, plunged him into despair and atheism. His only childhood friend...
Riffling through the B's, correspondents discovered that a most interesting bastard's daughter claimed to be a direct descendant of the late great Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor of the French.* She lives in a small villa outside Paris. Called "Mme. Mesnard Leon," she is a retired schoolteacher. On her own admission and by the authority of Dr. Hoefflinger, Mme. Leon is the daughter of Count de Leon who was the illegitimate son of Napoleon and one Elenore de la Plaigne, a complaisant lady of the Imperial Court...