Word: queered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Curie's followers in Paris predicted that she will soon have another startling discovery to announce. Meanwhile she sat patiently in her tiny laboratory in the Latin Quarter in Paris, working from ten to 20 hr. a day with uranium oxide to find out more about that queer radioactive family which begins with uranium and ends as lead. Since she knows most about radium she is now studying uranium and polonium, which she discovered in 1898 and named for her native Poland...
...expecting anything to happen. She ate too many chocolates, went too often to the cinema. Then one day she met young Hugh Miller, nephew of Tom's boss. Hugh was an aristocrat who did everything well, even wandering. They met only a few times. He thought she was queer but rather nice, soon forgot her when he went away. Her memory of him lasted the rest of her life...
...Three cheers for our queer old dean...
Britain's Gandhite. Suddenly, Congressman Snell and every one else in the chamber beheld an ascetic looking Laborite with high cheekbones and owlish glasses leap up from his bench and, pulling a queer white cap from his pocket, clap it on his head. What did that mean...
CONFESSIONS OF ZENO-Italo Svevo-Knopf ($3). Few authors would dare inflict on their readers such a queer bird as Zeno. Unclassifiable in any pigeonhole of good citizenry or good character, he is an eccentric fellow altogether, disliked even by his psychoanalyst. The plan of the book is simple but ingenious: Zeno's doctor persuades him to write his auto-biography as an exercise in analysis: when Zeno breaks with him before the treatment is complete, the doctor, in revenge, publishes Zeno's confessions...