Word: queered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...real name was Dresser until he legally changed it to his mother's maiden name. Born in Boston, he published How to Worry Successfully on his 51st birthday. Previously he wrote four volumes of the same type (Unmasking Our Minds, Growing into Life, What Makes Us Seem So Queer, Keep Your Wits). Educated at Boston's Chauncy Hall School, in Florence, London, Paris, Munich, Rome and Harvard, Dr. Seabury began practice as a psychologist in Manhattan at the age of 29, became consulting psychologist for New York City in 1921. Married, and living now in Ossining...
...most extraordinary nature that ever happened in the world," he sailed again to the South Seas, fought in the battle of Camperdown, was driven off his ship in the mutiny at the Nore in 1797. In 1806 Bligh was made governor of New South Wales, was deposed in a queer, involved insurrection two years later. At this point Dr. Mackaness records his gravest charge against his hero. After devoting twelve pages to the evidence as to how Bligh received news of his arrest, the biographer says sadly, "We can only repeat our reasoned conclusion that in the time of crisis...
Hearing his story, his parents in Norwood, Ohio claimed that their son had been queer ever since an airplane crash in 1922, intimated a plea of insanity...
Majesty, the royal and imperial grandmother asked amiably: "Whom have I the honor of receiving?" Announced Lilybet: "Lord Bathtub and Lady Plug!" This caused not a flicker upon the countenance of Her Majesty, but after the game was over she asked, "How did you happen to think of such queer names?" "Oh, we didn't think of them," explained Lilybet. "While we were dressing up to play, Uncle David came in. We told him we needed some new names and he suggested 'Lord Bathtub and Lady Plug...
...story darts from 1933 to 1902, from 1902 to 1928, from the years of the War to the time of the British General Strike, a queer cast of characters takes shape. Anthony's insincere, foolish fa ther, his boyhood friends, Mark Staithes and Brian Foxe, his first mistress, Mary Amberley who is Helen's malicious, unscrupulous mother, Beppo Bowles, an aging homosexual, all appear and play their parts in forming the combination of interests, prejudices, dislikes, inhibitions, standards, that make up Anthony's character. Sometimes they merely exert a negative influence, as when Anthony recoils in disgust...