Word: queered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...near midnight, and the Vagabond climbed his old Tower and this time by some queer premonition drew the ladder after him. The old woman had left a fire to welcome the fellow; the candies had burned their life away. Things were different tonight; as if some ominous cloud had set about the Tower. The moon shone into the chamber in a doubtful, suspicious manner. All kinds of weird shapes quivered on the wall. And now there struck a deep-booming, yawning bell. Twelve o'clock...
...Florida scrub, South Moon Under, in which proud and good-natured backwoodsmen were pictured retreating more and more deeply into a wilderness that seemed as homey as a village street. Mrs. Rawlings' second novel deals with the same region, but pictures along with the natives a queer group, composed of an English remittance man, a doctor and his son, a female orange grower, evidently intended to typify unhealthy sophistication. As in South Moon Under, the drawling natives, with their profound knowledge of the secret ways of the country, and their strange talk, filled with phrases like "right smart...
...British Reuters Agency reported. George V, having finished up his Scottish grouse shooting, announced that he would return to Buckingham Palace this week several days ahead of schedule. All his life a practical Navy man, His Majesty was far more alive than politicians like Squire Baldwin to the queer fact that big guns have a way of going off by themselves, and that His Majesty's Government had in fact placed the peace of Europe last week at the mercy of an incident...
Karl Evans, son of the president of Anchor Line Steamboat Co., a blue-eyed, outdoor youth, courted her although he was engaged to another girl. Mabel accepted his courtship with greater interest after her father forbade her to see Karl again. By a queer sort of trick. Karl married her. They lived happily, keeping the marriage a secret until Mabel became pregnant. Then a second, public ceremony was arranged. Soon after his son was born Karl was accidentally killed while hunting, Mabel's father died and she started for Paris to forget...
Smeared Britons. In Wall Street, aside from the fact that officials of numerous Standard Oil companies and subsidiaries denied any connection whatever with Francis M. Rickett of whom they said they had never heard, the U. S. fiscal reaction was: "This whole thing looks queer." With President Roosevelt just done up by the Senate in a neutrality cat's cradle, what U. S. syndicate, asked Wall Streeters, has millions to risk in Ethiopia, where U. S. economic interest would have to begin by calling for the Marines...