Word: queered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Authors Ben Hecht and Kay Boyle are as different as slot machine and peephole. Readers who like their money's worth of entertainment will drop their nickel in Author Hecht; those who want life in the psychological raw will squint through the fence at Author Boyle's queer back yard...
...Henry Short Story Award, shows how geography alters cases. Author Boyle's heroic hero is a Nazi, but in Austria. Critics of Kay Boyle think she takes a perverse, malicious interest in abnormal people, and most of the denizens of her back yard are indeed a queer lot. Most normal seem blood relations to characters out of D. H. Lawrence or Katherine Mansfield. Her stories are glimpses of people rather than peep shows of action, and often do not "make sense." Yet even her slyest grotesques are recognizably, though often cruelly, human. Some of them...
...awakens to the world, Oliver also becomes aware of depths of mystery and misery that lie beneath the summer surface of reality. His father's companion and servant is Jim Darnley, engaging, unscrupulous, intelligent Englishman who has left the British Navy as a result of some queer scandal. Attracted by Jim's robust enjoyment of nature, weary of his own brooding conscience, Oliver still cannot free his mind of questions of right and wrong, is offended when Jim tells him candidly of his father's weakness. Oliver's first shock comes when he learns that...
...Howerth, brilliant young research chemist, neither knew nor cared who hired him, who fitted out an expensive laboratory for him and then left him to his own devices. He thought it was queer, but because he was hot on the trail of a great discovery he soon forgot to wonder. What Howerth thought he was after, and then thought he had, was the creation of organic life from inorganic matter. When his invention turned out to be a deadly virus that killed his only friend, he was horrified. But Nicholas Holtz was pleased, chalked up another long shot turned asset...
...beginning to believe that there were almost as many Russian nobles as there are descendants of the passengers on the "Mayflower". It is queer how many of them turn up in restaurant jobs considering their life of ease, but still another batch has found its way into pictures...