Word: queered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What Price Hollywood (RKO). Hollywood stories, about the vagaries of cinema producers, the diversions of their employes, reached the dignity of the stage two years ago in Once in a Lifetime. Last year Howard Hughes wanted to make a savage picture about Hollywood called Queer People. He was dissuaded. What-Price Hollywood is the first cinema upon the subject...
...kinds of odd figures and queer items poured forth from the mute pages of the 1931-32 records of the purchasing office yesterday, when they were pulled from their steel filling-cabinets...
...Harvard nine has been doing queer things of late, and the trouble is not hard to diagnose. A none too brilliant victory over Pennsylvania, after a set of snappy wins over other strong invaders, was followed by a breakdown before a quite ordinary Georgetown team. Last Saturday, however, the Crimson rallied and overwhelmed Princeton, in the first Harvard-Princeton ball game since 1926. It seems as if Devens and his invincible pitching presage victory for the Crimson, over almost all comers. When he is not in the line-up, almost anything might happen, as it did in the Georgetown flasco...
...administering Federal oaths. Section after section had to do with details of government in Territories which have since become States; with the allotment of public lands to homesteaders; with the rigmarole of Civil War pensions; with Congressional employes (for the House: "28 pages, including three riding-pages"); with queer old revenue laws including an inheritance tax scaling up from 1% to 6% depending on the degree of kinship between the heirs and the deceased...
...centuries went by. A Kingdom passed away, a Republic came, a great man reeled over Europe, a kingdom came again, and the inevitable Republic followed, a small man flickered on the continent, and then the Third Republic. Versailles saw queer days. Women shouting for bread and a Queen offering cake. The splendor tarnished in the shadows, and silence fell, unending silence, to be broken at last by a German voice and the voice of Empire. And again deep silence...