Word: queered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Druggists frequently get requests, occasionally by a doctor's prescription, for such queer, almost forgotten but nonetheless authentic remedies...
...faint harmonics. No lavish diapasoner of thundering chords, Andre Gide picks out his effects with a spare but accurate choice. habelle is the story of love at first sight that withered not from Time but from a second glance. Young Student Lacase, searching materials for his thesis, visits the queer country household of La Quartfourche. They are all old people there except one crippled boy, grandson to one couple, great-nephew to the other. The boy's absent mother, Isabelle. still young, still beautiful, is never mentioned. But she is allowed to come back twice a year...
...famed, progressive first president, Horace Mann (1853-59). Though a new science hall, a new gymnasium, a library and a tearoom known as "Ye Anchorage" have been built on the big campus that has never been formally landscaped, still standing are the original four dingy brick buildings with their queer, concave pointed towers. Hard by is the college's Glen Helen, a hilly, 1,000 acre forest tract where a century ago lived a Communistic or Owenite colony. The village of Yellow Springs, named for the oxide of iron in its waters, resembles an oldtime New England town...
...same the whole world over. Sample lines given to the female character named Ly, who intrudes into the gambler's flat: "They called me the tiger cat?and they had good reason for it. ... So he's the master and you're the valet, eh? Life's queer sometimes...
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Ludwig van Beethoven were contemporaries, but it was long before they met, not long before they parted. In these four essays Remain Rolland, music-lover, Goethe expert, discussed in scholarly but readable fashion their queer relationship toward each other and toward the enthusiastic girl who tried to bring them together...