Word: queered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...them invite a young Oxonian to escort them. Reggie turned out to be unattractive, unimpressionable; when he announced that he was planning to take Holy Orders the sisters wrote him off as a loss. Olivia, because she was a wallflower, met many new people but they were all queer or preoccupied, not advantageous. Kate met nobody new but managed so well that super-eligible Tony looked on her with desirous but honorable eyes. Next day the sisters, with a whole dance-full of mutually exclusive experience behind them, knew they would never be really intimate again. And Olivia, though...
...more architecture than a piano is music" was a model of a queer pearshaped house hung on a pole, exhibited in Manhattan for the first time last week. It was the latest development of Richard Buckminster Fuller's famed "dymaxion house" (from "dynamics" and "maximum service...
...Young Reynolds was known to have talked of suicide often. Then gossipy newshawks began to arrive from New York and spread stories about Libby Holman, darling of Broadway. It was learned that she was a Jewess, that her father had changed his name from Holzman. She had married a queer backward youth six years her junior out of pity, she said, more than love. Was she after his $15,000,000 share of the Reynolds estate? Manhattan tabloids playing up her stage life and loves got back to Winston-Salem, stirred old Southern prejudices. In this atmosphere of moral distrust...
Then Lucy turned up again-poor, deserted, with several children. Paul felt only sorry for her at first, but soon his old passion began to rack him. When Lucy's besotted husband tried to kill her, Paul threw him downstairs, broke his neck, landed himself in a queer, unsaintly pickle. His straightforwardness and Lucy's testimony got him safely through the trial. Death soon removed the temptation of Lucy from him. Ripening but not repining, Paul seemed to those around him a strong and saintly character, though he knew himself still a struggling beginner at his endless...