Word: queered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hollywood writer, befriended by a temperamental director and his lovely actress-wife, becomes a half-willing participant in their queer make-believe that ends in tragedy...
...will wryly admit the biting likeness of the "Feinman Field" to their own "Abe" Shushan airport, reclaimed at enormous expense from the waters of Lake Pontchartrain. Dubious hero of the tale is a nameless and quixotic reporter, who is covering an airmeet at Feinman Field and stumbles on a queer situation, a flying triangle. Laverne, the woman-apex, is technically married to Shumann, a racing pilot, and her little boy bears his name. But she has no idea whether Shumann or the other member of the menage, a parachute jumper, is really the father. None of them knows, and none...
...action quickens, the figures take on clearer outline. Author Bishop's mist- clearing method is deliberate: the gradually opening eye which observes and slowly understands the story is that of a young boy. Observer-narrator is John, youngest member of a Virginia family whose blood is proud but queer. His grandfather is an eccentric lawyer. His dead father was a doctor who painted strange pictures. His Uncle Charlie has been a wildly attractive scapegrace from his youth up. As John grows into adolescence he becomes an increasingly sympathetic witness of Charlie's outrageous but somehow innocent goings...
...blood comes. The skin-narrative can be shortly told. Eugene Gant, youngest of his family, at 19 leaves his Southern home and goes to Harvard. His father, a Jeremiah miscast, is slowly dying. In Cambridge Eugene studies hard at his playwriting course, makes many a queer acquaintance, one good friend: Starwick, a Midwestern esthete. After going home for his father's funeral, and finishing his Harvard course, Eugene goes to Manhattan, teaches English for a while at a downtown college, then goes abroad. He gets little good out of England, finds Paris more to his taste. There he meets...
Greta's honeymoon was as queer as her courtship was sudden. Her Irish bridegroom, Sandy, had a way with women and a gift of gab, but the police were after him. On the little Polish steamer in which Sandy and Greta made their getaway from Ireland was a mysterious party of five Englishmen. Leader was Andrew, brilliant bachelor Oxford don, who hid his heroic light under a staid bushel. Andrew was the type of true adventurer, as Sandy was of the shoddy. The expedition's real purpose was not, as given out, to search for butterflies along...