Word: queered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Spring Davis, an aged Missouri farmer, loved one of his dogs, Bugle Ann, because her voice soared with a queer, brassy resonance high above the baying of the pack. Davis and his neighbors, plain, silent men, trained dogs for more fashionable hunters, let the hounds race nightly but never killed a fox. When Jacob Terry put up a fence that endangered the dogs, the old men quarreled, but Spring Davis' son nevertheless continued to make love to Jacob Terry's daughter. Bugle Ann disappeared, and Spring Davis, believing that Terry had killed her, shot him and went...
...That picture would have to include motion-picture and sound effects, too-the flopping, pointless efforts of the injured to stand up; the queer, grunting noises; the steady, panting, groaning of a human being with pain creeping up on him as the shock wears off. It should portray the slack expression on the face of a man, drugged with shock, staring at the Z-twist in his broken leg, the insane crumpled effect of a child's body after its bones are crushed inward, a realistic portrait of an hysterical woman with her screaming mouth opening a hole...
From the Journal readers could learn about the "Girl Killed by Automobile," the "Injured Man Left in Street," the " 'Queer' Money Being Spread in This City" and the Treasury's daily balance. Strike propaganda was mostly confined to the editorial page, which appealed to "the good will of a citizenry which loves fair play...
Most of the 60-odd characters are a queer lot. Catherine's greatest friends were a retired courtesan, a worn-out sea captain, and the gravedigger's daughter, who was considered hardly decent because her only dress was a sack. At the inn where peg-legged Pamploix spent his evenings the innkeeper's wife was so squint-eyed that habitues would order a drink from one end of the bar, then slink quickly to the other end, where the drink would be served. It was the great ambition of the baker's old father, a paralytic...
Narrator of The Last of Mr. Norris is a young English Communist-intellectual. On a train to Berlin he shares a compartment with an older man, whose beautiful wig and inexplicable nervousness excite his curiosity. The young man soon discovers many a queer fact about bewigged Mr. Norris: he is a masochist, his affairs are suspiciously vague, he is somehow under the thumb of his surly secretary. Sometimes Mr. Norris seems to be rolling in money; the next, he is in Micawberish straits. Consistently disingenuous, he is soon shown to be a clumsy but optimistic liar. But the young...