Word: queered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Middlewestern delegation to Harvard is composed of a queer lot. They are notorious for their adoption of Eastern manners, mores, and accents, and for their desertion of the rough, rude, vigorous, semi-savage tradition of their native central plains. And for 357 days in the year, their rep is well deserved. The sons of the Middle Border eschew the "r"s and the multi-colored clothing with which they have been born and bred and lean toward tweeds and martinis...
...moment when he came back over Tobruk our forces opened a bombing attack on the town, a queer coincidence. Our men were bombing from 20,000 feet and Balbo flew in at 2,000 feet. . . . When Balbo came over, an Italian cruiser in the harbor . . . opened fire and struck the Marshal's plane with a direct hit. . . . All this talk about him having been betrayed into an ambush was utter rot. . . . He was really a first-class chap . . . and I'm glad of a chance to clear this business...
...seemed queer to townspeople that the editorial staff should include two watch men. They could not figure out why "The Strangers" moved there in the first place. Some said it was because Lake Geneva is "Restricted to Gentiles"; some said that rich isolationist Lawyer Bill Trinke promoted the deal; Editor Eggleston said they picked the location for its peace & quiet...
With American food, plumbing, friends, and slang, the staff confounds the staid Englishman who still considers his American cousins a little queer...
...Logan prize ($500) went to Manhattan Sculptor Oronzio Maldarelli for a smooth-cheeked limestone portrait head. Chicago's Ivan Le Lorraine Albright got a $500 prize for a queer, meticulously detailed picture of the door of a mortuary chamber. He called it That Which I Should Have Done...