Word: queered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...somewhat human monster. Universal, encouraged by the success of Dracula to produce a series of horrific weirds, in which Poe's Murders in the Rue Morgue will be next, entrusted the direction of Frankenstein to James Whale. He did it in the Grand Guignol manner, with as many queer sounds, dark corners, false faces and cellar stairs as could possibly be inserted...
...crop. Most tobacco growers are tenant farmers. Their whole living for the next year is the cash they get at the auctions. Quiet and softspoken, the farmers at Owensboro listened to the auctioneer's jargon as last week's sale began.* The farmers understood this queer, rapid language perfectly; the quiet was short-lived. Tobacco began to sell at an average of $4.61 a hundred pounds against last year...
...kowtowing and howling for mercy. The "judges" imposed and actually collected "fines" up to $10,000 Mex. ($2,500) for the "crime" of selling Japanese goods. Convicted shopkeepers who said they could not pay were kicked back into Anti-Japan Association jails, kept there on persuasive starvation rations. This queer kind of justice, flagrantly illegal in every way, was everywhere upheld by Chinese public opinion, the opinion of one-fourth of mankind...
...Detroit, a policeman arrested Peter De Peter on suspicion, but could not determine what there was queer about him. At police headquarters Peter De Peter was fingerprinted; amazed policemen saw he had on each hand five fingers & a thumb, promptly released him. Peter De Peter said his father was ten-fingered and twelve-toed, and so was his son, 15, until he had the extra fingers cut off. He works his ten fingers nimbly at the Hudson Motor Car Co. plant...
...young once. These letters, a record of an amazingly tender affair of the heart, bear witness to their protracted youth. Published not only with Shaw's permission but with his connivance, the book has a foreword by Shaw, numerous explanatory notes. The story the letters tell was a queer affair...