Word: queered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Germans could buy a queer book last week, the first Nazi Who's Who. Thumbing it through, they found bits of paper carefully pasted over the biographies of Storm Troop Commander Ernst Roehm and other prominent Nazis shot during the "blood purge.'' (TIME, July 9.) In a foreword the harassed Nazi editor explained "Political events necessitated many corrections in this volume, which already had been printed." To reassure prospective purchasers who might be afraid to buy a book containing traitors' names, no matter how carefully pasted over a line of heavy type on the title page...
Machinery for the new plant was entirely supplied by Soviet Russia, Dictator Stalin sending it as a "loan without interest" to Dictator Kemal, to be paid back in Turkish goods in 20 years. In the Turkish Parliament the queer opposition groups, which Dictator Kemal fosters and maintains expressly to blow off steam against himself, have charged that the Five Year Plan is "pure Communism," but Premier Ismet declared last week that Turkey's tariffs have been upped so high that private capitalists, seemingly unafraid, are now building cotton mills behind the tariff walls at such a rate that within...
...other than Heaven by reason of their possessing, in all innocence, the "wrong" faith. Shades of Washington, Jefferson, Roosevelt the First, McKinley, Coolidge?all consigned to limbo by TIME for not being Catholics. We live in a strange era. And TIME is becoming a "strange" magazine?not to say "queer." C. M. JOXES...
...foot down on such nonsense Tom moped at home, revolved methods of escape. When the offer of a post as tutor in a German family opened the door, Tom was out like a flash. He got along famously with his employer, a distinguished Nobel Prizewinning author and his queer menage, fell in love with Undine, a visiting cousin from the U. S. When he let himself be seduced by the luscious secretary it cost him both his job and Undine. But the experience had been valuable; back in London he was soon forging ahead, first as secretary to a rising...
...telling involved such a rehash of queer Captain Roehm's unnatural orgies that next day Austrian Heimwehr Commander Prince von Starhemberg retorted: "The Austrian Government cannot remain unmoved when a version of events is broadcast over German radios which is the most unappetizing and dirtiest thing ever broadcast in the German language. Naziism is a version of Bolshevism! I know the present leaders of Germany personally. I know they are incapable of erecting a German system in Germany. Austrians, stand firm! Austria is destined to be the savior of Germanism...