Word: queered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...friend who was a spiritualist, asked to join a circle for the investigation of psychic phenomena. When a skeptical professor of physics also agreed to join, Garland went along. Thereafter, in many a darkened room (and sometimes in a daylit office), he heard, saw, felt many a queer thing. Scientifically curious, he kept records of the seances he attended. In Forty Years of Psychic Research he has rewritten those records into a "plain narrative of fact." Though he has changed "psychics' " names, supplemented his written record with his memory, he goes bail for the essential accuracy of his facts...
Garland's conclusion: the phenomena are inexplicable but their interpretation is too hopeful. Spiritualism naturally draws people who have been bereaved, but their faith is "a fairy story with a heartache in it." Garland thinks mediums are often sincere but are probably subconscious frauds. His guess at the queer things he heard, saw, felt: "They all originate in the seance room and have not been proven to go beyond...
...much translations as adaptations, Poet Millay says that in every instance they have used the original metre and form, invites comparison by printing Baudelaire's version on the opposite page. In some cases she thinks they have been able to give the literal equivalent. Some might think it queer that so ladylike a poet as Edna St. Vincent Millay should spend four months with such a tortured satanist as Charles Baudelaire. With a stamp of her foot she defies the lifted eyebrows: "It is impossible to make a good translation of a poet of whom one disapproves...
...family by his frank reports of dissipation ("No wonder people get drunk at Oxford! It is a silly life!"). But he won his "blue" for boxing, made more friends, did some studying and began to think for himself. His first encounter with Carlyle did not impress him: "What a queer man! At first his style reminded me of an illiterate Japanese journalist writing for an English paper in Australia!" His letters to his father began to bristle with awkwardly unanswerable questions...
PETER, CALLED THE GREAT-Maurice Bethel Jones-Stokes ($3). Heavily romanticized biography which makes Peter out a queer mixture of hysterical stallion and sadistic genius. ARTIFEX: SKETCHES AND IDEAS-Richard Aldington - Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). Miscellaneous papers by an English writer whom the modern England much annoys. THE LADY OF BLEEDING HEART YARD- Laura Norsworthy-Harcourt, Brace ($3). A determined attempt to rescue the reputation of a high-tempered, comely, not-always-truthful Jacobean lady whom legend has confounded with others of the same name. WITHOUT GREASE-Frank R. Kent- Morrow ($2.50). Collection of the syndicated columns...