Word: queered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stands today as a queer paradox: France, the democracy, a quiet pasture land for the world's most famous peasantry, coexisting with France, the greatest military power of modern times, with an army which all but equals in numbers and far surpasses in equipment Germany's vast militaristic machine...
Colonial America considered by many a dull, dry subject, is here pictured in an amusing, yet scholarly light. The lectures which could easily be boring and uninteresting contain much humor and many queer tales of "the other side" of our colonial ancestors. Although none of the essential factual detail is omitted, it is presented in a fashion which makes the hours pass rapidly and gives one more time and interest for the reading a thing which he well needs, for the assignments are not short and many of them hardly brim over with fascination...
...Corp. (shoes) out of $50,000 by circulating through its Binghamton plant thousands of forged piecework claim tickets. While squads of CCC boys were set to work digging up several acres of land near Riverhead, L. I., where the ring was supposed to have buried $45,000 of "the queer" along with its engraving plates, the identity of the curiously assorted prisoners was made known...
...York City parents clutched their newspapers in wide-eyed alarm one day last week. They had often suspected that teachers as a class were a little queer. But here in big black headlines was the appalling assertion that no less than 1,500 of New York's public school teachers were actually unbalanced. Many were hopelessly insane, some almost maniacs. Reading down, startled parents learned of a teacher so self-conscious that she had poked a chair-leg into a boy's eye and twisted it ''to distract attention of the class" from herself. Another...
...village brings Forster-Daintree to the dock after his wife's death and his almost immediate second marriage. Although he is acquitted, the whisper of poisoner still persists. The village doors are locked at night. Twined throughout the district are the tendrils of the Forster family, spoiled and queer from intermarriage and frustration. When death of the clan's head reveals murder for pride, the village breathes again, but does not understand...