Word: queered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Frimbo, the conjure-man, was a queer one. He lived next to an undertaker and died, apparently, from having a handkerchief stuffed down his throat. It would have been impossible for a normal person to find out who killed him, but not for Dr. Archer, a colored physician almost as erudite as Frimbo himself. Dr. Archer's suggestions proved invaluable to Detective Dart who seated himself in Frimbo's parlor and proceeded to examine suspects: the undertaker; the undertaker's wife ; a Negro porter named Easley Jones; a dope fiend; a "numbers" runner; two light-hearted Negro bucks named Bubber...
...cabinetmaking, preaches, lives a strange philosophy-"Resist not evil!" Towards him Odin, in spite of his love for his mother and Karen-Anna, is irresistibly drawn. After a series of boyish escapades, capped by a miraculous escape from drowning, Odin leaves home to join his father. "It was queer to be walking like this all alone on a strange road. And he had felt the same when he was a little boy, sometimes: it was as though you couldn't believe in what you saw. It was just as grand for all that. And it was good...
...scatters rather indiscriminately throughout his book. His own pupil he saw apparently only once, but he was pestered nearly to death by his tutor Abdul who, despite profuse apologies, was always "boring upon" his time. When the day of departure came, however, he was half sad to leave these queer Hindus. They, with their queer illogic, hit the nail of his experience on the head: "Four days of moonlight-then darkness," say they, sadly contemplating life...
...social life: Jews & Gentiles, radicals & conservatives soon lost their disparity of viewpoint. But the cleavage between non-fraternity men and fraternity men widened, until few men with joining proclivities entered the Experimental College. The University, too, felt the Experimental College to be "queer," disloyal, hostile. In two years the number of Experimental College students from Wisconsin dropped from 45 to eleven...
...most readers will be more interested in their daily doings than in discovering which one of them murdered the two American boys. Just out of college, the boys were taking an innocent tramp through Europe, landed up by chance in Trapani, capital of Corisco. Things were buzzing in that queer town. Former Minister Karadagh, recently released from jail, was plotting to depose the sinister fat eunuch, Taabor Pasha, Corisco's highly oriental Prime Minister. French Financier Martignac was making negotiations concerning a loan. At a diplomatic tea given by Mrs. Early, Karadagh's English mistress, the boys...