Word: queered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which occasion he will introduce a variety of Amusing Burlesques, Comical Delineations, Enlivening Funnyism, Gleesome Humors, Innoxious Jolities, Kindling Levities, Mirthful Novelties, Outjesting Palliatives, Queer Reminiscences, Satirical Truisms, Ubiquitous Voices, Wags, Xantippes, Yahoos, Zaneys...
...last fortnight, the conductor and passengers of the westbound train from Irkutsk to Moscow gaped in astonishment at the queer old gentleman who sat with a mouldy, grinning skull in his lap. But Anthropologist Ales Hrdlicka smiled benignly back. For he had just been presented with the most precious skull of his career, and he was literally not going to let it out of his clutches...
...months ago, while Gilbert Hunger Wright was meditatively scratching the bristly whiskers on his Adam's apple, he noticed that queer sounds came out of his mouth. When he silently mouthed words, the sounds caused by scratching his whiskers were formed into words. Fascinated, Gilbert Wright, who was once an engineer and radio operator, began to experiment further. Finally he came up with a device which his father, who by that time was also interested, christened "Sonovox...
From various U. S. Senators the Hazelton, Pa. Flying Club got some queer-sounding telegrams. From Nevada's Key Pittman: "Mildred arrived as storm broke. She is spending the night with me." From Colorado's Edwin Johnson: "The members of the office staff are taking turns sitting on it [a pigeon's egg] in the hope that something might happen." In his office California's Hiram Johnson shouted to his secretary: "Get this chicken out of here. It's raising hell." Explanation: as a publicity stunt arranged by the National Youth Administration each Senator...
...Here is a queer conflict between the occasion and the persons. The occasion, if you stop to think about it, is bristling with importance. . . . Here were meeting the heads of the two greatest democracies of the world. . . . That makes it something to worry about, to be sure nothing happens that can be misunderstood, overestimated, underestimated, distorted, omited. . . . The King and Queen, as persons, have overshadowed the occasion. . . . We had expected to like them, and we found we liked them more than we expected...