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Word: queered (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seems awfully queer," said Alice, glancing over the morning news, "that in this section it says Hitler wants peace, and over here it says the Fuehrer has ordered a bigger army, and more battleships and a greater air fleet and more submarines...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 5/3/1935 | See Source »

...That's not queer at all," interrupted the Mad Hutter, who was feeling very sprite this May morning, "it's just you don't understand logic...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 5/3/1935 | See Source »

...Shelley herself, who tells it to her husband (Douglas Walton) and Lord Byron (Gavin Gordon), has none of the hangdog air that one expects in sequels. Screenwriters Hurlbut & Balderston and Director James Whale have given it the macabre intensity proper to all good horror pieces, but have substituted a queer kind of mechanistic pathos for the sheer evil that was Frankenstein. Henry VIII had enough wives to make four screen stars. Elsa Lanchester is the latest to gain stellar fame in Hollywood, having had the way paved for her by Binnie Barnes (There's Always Tomorrow), Merle Oberon (Folies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Apr. 29, 1935 | 4/29/1935 | See Source »

...April 1), was cracking up last week. The Lord Privy Seal's head swam as his plane took off for London. On approaching Cologne he had to be set down, tottered to a hotel where for two hours he lay on his back, knowing only that he "felt queer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Castles of Illusion | 4/15/1935 | See Source »

...State but Idaho. On a hobo trip in 1930 he met "Matt Williams," based his novel on Williams' story. Author Whitcomb has had little to invent: as a hobo and interviewer in agencies for the homeless he has talked to 10,000 unemployed. His literary gods are a queer trinity; Thoreau, Ring Lardner, D. H. Lawrence. At present Author Whitcomb is in St. Paul getting material for his next book...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Labor Speaks | 4/15/1935 | See Source »

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