Word: queered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Russian Composer Sergei Prokofiev who appeared also as pianist. No stranger in U. S. music halls is Composer Prokofiev. He used to be railed at as the enfant terrible among moderns, a name belied by his pleasant. Pucklike presence. But since others have outdone him in the making of queer, dissonant patterns, the public has found him less disturbing, more to be accepted. Prokofiev too has changed in the past ten years. Now 38, leading an unheckled life in Manhattan, he writes more simply and with greater deference to melody. Yet it was music done in his first, scorned manner...
...arid Mojave Desert, a queer, experimental bird tried its wings last week. It is the product of the Northrup Aircraft Corp., designed by John Northrup, one-time Lockheed Vega engineer and W. K. Jay, pilot. Their queer bird is all wing-with a 60-h. p. motor and pusher propeller, retractable three-wheel landing gear, a skinny polelike arrangement for flippers and rudders, seats within the wing itself. Indicated performance characteristics of this trial plane are: low landing speed, high speed of over 100 m. p. h., large gliding angle, and little probability of spinning...
...queer fact that French shipyards rivet together no cargo boats but build only passenger ships was excitably commented on last week by buoyant Louis Rollin who, now rejoicing in the title of French Minister of Marine, is one of the most irrepressible go-getters in the Cabinet of "Tardieu l'Américain...
...been said that the success of Perdriat resembles that of a cinema actress, in its brevity, its monetary aspect, its exaggerations. Her first painting, a landscape done with her finger nails and bits of cotton, was immediately acquired by the Queen of Norway. The queer Perdriat legend promptly began, a legend fostered by that somewhat anonymous and powerful group, "her friends," who apparently had been already convinced of her genius and were waiting only for the opportunity to lavish praises on its fruits...