Word: queered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...next few years Hart Crane got his education: a queer mixture of little magazines, Greenwich Village society and odd jobs. He worked brief spells in a munitions factory, a shipyard, a newspaper office. When he was jobless or in financial straits, which was most of the time, friends lent him money and put him up. A prickly guest, he was always quick to take offense...
...Dublin through which Gogarty takes his sometimes headlong but not always straightforward course is peopled with queer, usually delightful characters, many of them transatlantically famed. Francis Hackett, George Moore, AE, William Butler Yeats, many a lesser fish swim through the bright underwater of Gogarty's world, and few of them are not good for a laugh, for Gogarty is never reverent even where he admires. Queerest fish of the lot is one "Endymion," who regularly steers his course home by compass, was once arrested for sabering a ham (which he had previously bought) running off with...
Since China has been heaving with revolution for the past 20 years, the great majority of these stories have social upheaval for their background. Most of the authors are Leftwing; many have been shot or imprisoned. Their names, well-known in China, will be mostly just queer names to U. S. readers: Lu Hsün, Jou Shih, Ting Ling, T'ien Chün, Shih Ming...
...time. At one point he took a job as a billposter. He made a first trip to the tropics, to Martinique, but it was a disappointment. Then Vincent van Gogh, a lone wolf like himself, invited him to come and work with him at Aries. Their queer partnership broke up when van Gogh went crazy and cut off his ear with a razor. Meanwhile Gauguin and Mette wrote to each other, in a fairly friendly fashion. He tried to explain to her why he was acting as he did: "My business is art, it is my capital...
...BELOVED FRIEND"-Catherine Drinker Bowen & Barbara von Meek-Random House ($3). Any musician runs the risk of being thought queer, but Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky ran a bigger risk than most. Just how queer he actually became was related last week by Authors von Meek & Bowen, in a full-dress, 484-page biography that Tchaikovsky addicts will find sympathetic, non-musical readers interesting if partly incomprehensible. With only a slight stiffening of technical talk and musical illustration, "Beloved Friend" is a revealing human document on the genus musician, Russian species. Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, known to friend & foe alike as "the culmination...