Word: queered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Newsmen write almost anything. They scour the University for interesting or queer professors. They can cover athletics, talk to coaches. They interview backstage. They probe and investigate and expose. All this is open to the news candidate...
Starting at Home. The Judge has added to his store of knowledge about human nature in these three years. He watched witnesses squirm before him, torn by loyalty to crooked friends, by the desire to save their own hides. He noticed a queer phenomenon: some turned wringing wet with sweat, others parched so that their skin peeled. He believes that all were relieved when they finally told the truth. Under the glass top of his desk he kept a Walter Scott couplet for all to read and ponder: Oh, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice...
...instructive: it selects details of the actual world and invites contemplation of them. Another kind of modern art gives pleasure by the sheer wit, fantasy and exuberance of its forms. Darrel Austin's paintings are of this sort, and the infectious charm of his queer, metallic-sheened amphibian fairyland has recently made him one of the most popular of contemporary U.S. artists...
...late 1930s the ideas of the surrealists had rippled so wide that many prominent European artists were searching their subconscious minds, recording and treasuring their dream impressions, practicing a hundred ingenious methods of outwitting their everyday sense of logic. Some of the queer things they turned up made their way into more popular forms of art, influenced things like 'poster design...
...have fairly definite proof. Allport revealed," that enemy agents are often given information by propaganda broadcasts. Every once in a while we hear a queer sounding program that isn't the usual sort of propaganda." As an example of this practice, Allport told of a program recently broadcasted from Berlin, describing in detail a track meet. This may well have been a code message, he believed, addressed to spies in America...