Word: queered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fracture of the arm, but had plenty of fighting against Haitian bandits, rose to be a Marine sergeant with rank of lieutenant in the native gendarmerie. A crack shot, he personally potted many a Caco (bandit), but in off hours he made friends with the peaceful natives, did many queer, unsoldierly things, such as acting as emergency midwife and going to voodoo meetings. Several times he visited the island of La Gonave, which had a bad name but attracted Sergeant Wirkus. He put in for the post of resident sub-district commander of the island, and in April...
Twice the Rineharts have lived in a haunted house. Stoutly asserting a disbelief in ghosts, Mrs. Rinehart gives unvarnished but spooky facts about bells ringing, furniture moving, queer sounds, queer sights...
...Born April 29, 1901, he is 29 (the Empress is 28) by Western reckoning; but Japanese hold that everyone is a year old at birth. Japanese think it queer that, since everyone has unquestionably been alive for some time before birth, Westerners cling to the obvious absurdity of reckoning a newborn babe as of zero...
...majority of her acquaintance in disliking her. She had been as far as the U. S. (as a governess) but never far from starvation; she had intimations both of immortality and madness. Men had taught her to fear love. She welcomed Henri as a kind of son-brother. This queer pair lived together, in France and England, for five years...
When Bank Clerk Jim Blake found his boss in conference with a man who had a long red scar on the back of his hand, he had the feeling that something queer was afoot. This goes to show that in a mystery story not even the hero should jump to conclusions. Still, you can hardly blame Jim (who was not overly given to suspicion), for he never laid eyes again on the scarred man till they suddenly met in a dripping cavern, in the dark. Between those two meetings Jim had plenty to think about...