Word: queered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...floor of Romola's mother's house. She proved a stern jailer. Nijinsky was a hated Russian. His status as a dancer was forgotten. He had no space to practice, spent his time working on a system for annotating the dance. The authorities heard about his queer hieroglyphics, suspected him of spying. Banker Otto Hermann Kahn was responsible for the Nijinskys' release. He wanted the Diaghilev Ballet to come to New York and he wanted Nijinsky. But Diaghilev never forgot his grudge and Nijinsky's wife blames him for the long chain of misfortunes which...
...Hepburn characterization of Trigger as a queer, hot-tempered warmhearted hoyden is wasted on the picture. In mood and manner Spitfire belongs to an obsolete era in the cinema. Typical shot: Trigger describing a lout who has tried to kiss her as "consared Son of Satan...
...should not speak this way of my elders, and I remember how you got Dad to cut my allowance in half when well, there is no need of mentioning that incident, but I think you will agree on Uncle Harry, for you always said he was a little queer...
...President Conant to make Harvard a real "national university," as Oxford may be called in England. This will be an additional recommendation for Boston and Cambridge--for Harvard is now quite as much a Boston institution as it is a Cambridge institution. But to Bostonians it seems, a queer idea that during the experimental period of the new fellowships all the holders must come from the States of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin and Minnesota. Why should New England be shut out, even for a time, from this opportunity? Or Massachusetts at the least? And why Minnesota rather than Iowa? Iowa...
...John Floyd had tried less arduously to include all the queer people in the Graham book and treated them as incidental to his main theme, his play might have made more sense. As it is, Whitey seems less than an immortal hero but Hal Skelly's teetering performance gives the play what vitality it has. Its fundamental defect is that libeling Hollywood has long since ceased to be sufficient grounds for drama...