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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...those odd days queernesses grew naturally on people, like bumps on logs. Nobody thought it wonderful that Mr. Eardley, the dairyman around the corner, was like the rest of his family, the color of milk, or that the local barber should bear the name Cutbeard. Small Compton Mackenzie thought it only natural that Dr. Arden, who lived at No. 1, should, with his lanky frame and short frock coat, incarnate the figure 1. Mr. Lockett, living at No. 3, had carroty curls that puffed out beneath his curly-brimmed silk hat "in a very three-like way." And who should...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hereditary Environment | 7/18/1932 | See Source »

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