Word: queered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...visiting lecturer had chanced to overhear this remark at Mooseheart, Ill., site of a Loyal Order of Moose home & school for some 1,000 orphans, he would either be mystified or mortified. Translated from recorded Mooseheart slang, the remark means: "The visiting lecturer is a very queer person. The girls are gossiping about...
Everywhere the long arm of "Oklahoma" reaches in and dictates the style. One of Rodgers' best songs, "June Is Bustin' Out All Over" sounds a good deal like "Oh, What a Beautiful Morning" and several others like "You're a Queer One, Julie Jordan" and "What's the Use of Wondrin'?" though nowhere nearly so tuneful as their predecessors have a definite touch of "Oklahoma" about them...
Sophie Wing (Tallulah Bankhead) is a famous actress whose husband went abroad and enlisted in 1939, was soon after reported missing, and later declared legally dead. Now in 1944 Sophie is about to marry her leading man (Donald Cook) when a queer phone call announces that her husband is on his way to her house. Before he arrives, Sophie's fiancé, then her father, then her little daughter, and finally Sophie herself have extensive visions of what the reunion will be like. Keeping to the brittle comedy mood of the play, Barry uses the visions for satire rather...
...before Rundstedt's counterattack in the Ardennes, Walton left the First Army to head for Christmas at home, and "it seemed queer to find myself leaving the front actually alive and unhurt after so many days when I woke up in the morning wondering if I would be dead before night." But as soon as he heard of the attack he headed back toward the battles. He was with General Vandenberg all through the terrible days when the pea-soup fog kept our tactical air force grounded, finally got back to the front with General Patton...
Soviet doctors, with their characteristic well-why-not attitude toward new ideas, have lately been trying out a queer one. The idea: to cure people with opposite ailments by having them exchange some blood. They have experimented with the following "antagonistic" conditions: high and low blood pressure, overactive and underactive thyroid conditions, leukemia (overproduction of white blood cells) and shortage of white cells, pernicious anemia and overproduction of red cells, lack of menstruation and menstrual hemorrhage...