Word: queered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Radio listeners in the U. S. heard gibberish of this sort one day last week, pronounced in a queer, blurred, atonal voice like that of a person who has been stone deaf since birth. As a matter of fact the words, which came from London, were not spoken by a human being at all but were uttered by an apparatus in the hands of Sir Richard Paget, 69-year-old barrister, linguist, musician, acoustician, who clings to the old British tradition that well-disposed people of the aristocracy should take an interest in the arts and sciences...
...community where queer behavior, tightfistedness, sadistic gossip and such were taken for granted, the Wikker family stood out. The scorching tongue of squat, black-eyed Widow Semiramis was matched by the stinginess of her frail, bullying sister Ann, who said when her husband died: 'Th' worst of it is I wasted a chicken on him yesterday." Rich Farmer Ezekiel Wikker was as mean as his sisters but added a manly lust and a thirst for hard liquor...
...Grass Roof) in Wheeling, W. Va., and Captain John D. Craig (Adventure in Haiti) in Ann Arbor, Mich. In addition there will be a number of lectures belonging to the Great Question Mark school of public speaking, with David Seabury in Detroit asking What Makes Us Seem So Queer?; John T. Flynn in Elizabeth, N. J., What's the Matter With Us Now?; Stanley High in Boston, Where Do We Go From Here?; and Vicki Baum in Salt Lake City, Why Be Afraid? The week when all this takes place will be exceptional but not unique for its lecturing...
...representing Rumania as Foreign Minister, when King Carol and Premier George Tatarescu put their heads together. The Premier handed His Majesty the Cabinet's resignation, and the Cabinet was then immediately reformed under Premier Tatarescu-without Foreign Minister Titulescu. At about the same time M. Titulescu began feeling queer, and soon eight doctors were working frantically at St. Moritz to save the great Rumanian statesman from death by poison...
Born contemporaries, the two poets are, in most things else, remote relations. Irish MacNeice finds Iceland interesting chiefly as one more queer spot in which to wonder what the devil he is doing there. Sometimes he tries to give a laughless explanation...