Word: queered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they scarcely knew what to make of him. Picked up in a boat after the British destroyer he was on had been sunk off Tobruk, the first thing he did after landing was to demand an interview with Field Marshal Erwin Rommel. The Germans, astounded by this "rather queer wish by the prisoner," turned it down...
...last May Special Agent Joseph Williams of the California State Board of Medical Examiners went to Chico to investigate irregularities in another doctor's prescriptions. By chance, as he plowed through drugstore records, he also noticed something queer about Dr. Phillips' prescriptions. Medically they were perfect. But they were signed J. H. Phillips instead of James H. Phillips...
...however, there is one consistent factor-a defiance of materialism." Few novels are as absorbing as this collective biography of the Pre-Raphaelites; few are as funny. And no other book on Rossetti and his circle has set them so accurately in their historical context, has given to the queer, excessive things they did so clear a historical meaning. For the Pre-Raphaelites, says Gaunt, are the only optimistic rebel artists who have so far defied industrial civilization. "They would not adapt themselves to their age. Its most brilliant misfits, they invented time and place of their own in which...
...Patterson is a different sort of journalistic bird from, Bertie McCormick. Unlike the Tribune, the tabloid News plays the news straight-except for queer capers in some "feature" stories. Having long ago graduated from reliance on a cheesecake-and-scandal diet, it now commands respect from its contemporaries for its enterprise and alertness. Equally respected is Captain Patterson, who distinguished himself in combat in World War I, has espoused many a liberal cause. But his pre-Pearl Harbor isolationism and editorial changes of pace on the conduct of the war have prompted many to tar him with the same brush...
...leader, in this queer obstacle race, was a big black fellow, knotty of muscle, sleek of thigh. He leaped a seven-foot wall, writhed easily hand-over-hand up a rope, scrambled over a log breastwork, pawed up one side of a big rope web and down the other, snaked through a culvert pipe and broad-jumped a trench...