Word: queered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...producing 1,250 h. p. No airplane engine was known to be more powerful. The Rolls-Royce engine was of the W-type, better known as Broad Arrow, a conventional British design used in the Napier engine to whoop Sir Henry O'Neil de Hane Segrave in his queer record-breaking motorcar over the sands at Daytona Beach at 231 m. p. h. last year...
...program current at the University Theatre is a queer mixture of good and bad. The feature picture, "Looked Doors", is based upon a play by Channing Pollock, which if well directed and well acted would have made as fine a movie melodrama as one could ever hope to see. But in the transition from stage to screen, "Locked Doors" suffered a multitude of indignities, and now it appears as a movie, basically the same as the play, but still a very pale copy of the original...
...more unfaithful to its material than other, franker attempts to make scenarios out of Conrad's books. The adventurous and fantastic shell of the story has been preserved; the thought that burned behind Conrad's carved phrases and balanced sentences like light behind a stained glass window, making the queer figures in the glass live after a fashion, is gone. Nancy Carroll is a girl who plays the violin and sings in Zangiacomo's Ladies' Orchestra in a South Sea island hotel run by a man named Schomberg. Richard Arlen helps 'her to escape from disgusting fates imminent...
...household is a queer one: marriage and children not being allowed her, she has adopted old broken-down waifs and strays, who give her nothing but jealous abuse, but on whom she can spend-her affection. She knew that "life had no wonderful surprises after all and that its most difficult burden was the incommunicability of love." Chrysis thinks she has grown beyond passion, but in spite of herself falls in love with Pamphilus, most silent of her guests, the son of the principal man on the island. But one day Pamphilus meets Chrysis' younger sister, Glycerium...
Some of his classmates knew enough Latin to translate him into "Opifex," a Smith. Reduced to "'Pifex," this was his appelation henceforth. His college days must have prefigured the rest of his strange life. After he was graduated his Smiths made him a fat allowance, but he was a queer lad, he was. He wore out the patience of his patrons. They cast him off. He became a sort of tramp. He tried his fortune in mining camps, in New York buoket shops, in the Chicago grain market. He even haunted, as his chaste Cambridge biographer puts it, "sections...