Word: queered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sometime around 1500 a queer Florentine named Piero, of whom it is recorded that he hated the amenities and liked anything wild, was commissioned to paint a decorative panel for the palazzo of one Giovanni Vespucci. A Rousseauist ahead of his time, Piero proceeded to turn out another painting of his favorite subject, primitive life...
Satire at present is making a wallflower of sex in the musical field, and Knickerbocker Holiday shrewdly woos the reigning favorite, gives Nieuw Amsterdam and Pieter Stuyvesant a queer suggestion of the New Deal and F. D. R. Dutchman Stuyvesant (Walter Huston) is pictured as a would-be dictator outraging the hit-or-miss "American" who hates political systems, hates to take orders...
...sandwiches were responsible for that. Hell of a thing anyhow--having to usher on the Dartmouth side. Showing those belligerent guys to their seats. Almost afraid to yell for Harvard. Having to listen to them cheer when any decent person would moan, and vice versa. Standing silent while their queer, savage Wahoo swelled and echoed. Well, here come some more of them. . . . Show your tickets. Keep moving, please...
...officers, although still on their feet, are as helpless as the Chinese, give off just as sharp an odor of ammonia-the smell of fear. Only two of them are actually reduced to green-faced semiconsciousness but by the end of the third day all of them have queer hallucinations-the pleasantest are those of a young junior officer who, as he pours oil through the aft latrine, chatters away to a naked debutante he met in Norfolk a few days earlier...
Flat cars at sidings were filled with armored trucks, already bedaubed with the queer stripes of camouflage...