Word: queered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Giorgio Vasari, like so many other Renaissance Italians, strove mightily to make a name as a great painter. He failed. But history has remembered him for an enduring hobby: gathering snippets of fact & fiction, bright sayings, and queer habits of his fellow painters...
...Angeles concert this week, Cellist Stephen De'ak pulled his bow lightly across a queer contraption shaped somewhat like a pneumatic drill. With no effort he produced tones large enough to fill the hall...
...with so much talent for public relations, handsome Ed Stettinius has had a queer whirl from history...
...that time," he went on, "only two other guys besides me used to ride them, and one was considered a queer and the other was a cripple who didn't walk very well. And I mustn't forget old Professor Julian Coolidge, the math genius. His biking only added to his eccentric reputation...
...three O. Henry Memorial Awards, as well as distinguished critical praise), Author Welty showed that she could envision and remodel men & women in such a way that when they appeared in her pages-clothed in a fairy-taleish, often brilliant prose-they were fascinating and had a kind of queer vitality, but were not much like anything on earth. Delta Wedding, which is Author Welty's first novel, is likely to provoke in readers the same old mixture of puzzlement over the odd people in it and respect for the sensitive, nimble hand that pulls the strings. Every page...