Word: queered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Holy rites of celebration would be secretly performed in the six-spired Mormon Temple, open only to Mormon church-members in good standing (i.e., approved as moral and right-minded by their local pastors-'"bishops"), and thus long supposed by superstitious Gentiles* to conceal queer ceremonies of polygamous import. But Mormonism is by no means merely a closeted, holy matter. It is also a hard-headed economic system and the communicants are bustling, practical, prosperous. Always have non-Mormons been welcomed to services and organ recitals in the great domed Tabernacle (seating capacity 10,000) just behind the Temple...
Poet Carl Sandburg's fairy tales are neither as popular nor as winsome as English Author Alan Alexander Milne's, but they have their own queer charm...
Until the seals are within 60 miles of the Pribilof Islands the Coast Guard boats will follow them. After that they will be left to disperse among their desolate rookeries, to conduct their queer and frigid propagation, to make ready for their next tour of the Pacific which will start three months after arrival, early in August...
Author Bata Kindai Amgoza Ibn Lo-Bagola has had a hard, queer time. A black man but a Jew, he is a native of the Ondo bush, hinterland of Dahomey, in western Africa. His people, according to legend, left Palestine after Roman Titus' sack of Jerusalem (A. D. 70), fled to Morocco, to Timbuktu and farther. There, swallowed up by African natives, they still remained a Jewish sect, continued Jewish rites. Says LoBagola: they carry out the ceremony of circumcision to the letter, "although not in the same way as in Palestine today. Our rabbis permit...
...queer idee...