Word: queered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...then, there are those queer egotistical people who like to waste the time of the entire class by elaborating on a joint in which no one but themselves has any real interest...
...Florence best because that was where her father came from, but one thing in Rome had excited her and her description of it inflamed the boy. That was the changing of the guard at the Vatican. And how he strained to imagine that scene! He says he had a queer sensation that night seven years ago when he had looked up at the beautiful Rome in his sister's face-and now he was looking down on it from a bomber...
...went to the States, tiptoeing his great abilities across roles too thin to support a minimum human intelligence. Look at all the individual talents, as inimitable and irreplaceable as thumbprints, which had been turned into just so many highly decorative zombies. "Hollywood," she told the press, "has a queer way of taking an individual and fitting her into the American mold. I have worked hard to develop my style and I don't want anything to do with bathing suits and plucked eyebrows...
Joseph Mitchell is as gloomy as only a humorist can be. For years he has been studying, with the prying patience of a botanist, the queer human weeds he finds growing in the dingier interstices of Manhattan's bum-littered Bowery. But Mitchell is saddened when readers of The New Yorker, Esquire and other magazines chuckle at the results of his researches, these 20 profiles and stories, now collected for the first time in book form. For Humorist Mitchell professes to find nothing comic in his wacky human jujubes. He says he does not caricature them. Instead, he describes...
...city just outside McSorley's is less cozy but just as queer. It has yielded Author Mitchell specimens like...