Word: queered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week the picture was correct: a great expanse of camouflage netting still covered her bulk. Next morning the picture looked the same-until experts scanned it. The hidden bulk was queer, slightly misshapen. Close examination showed that the shape under the camouflage net was not the Scharnhorst, but a 530-ft. tanker with smaller vessels at bow and stern to give her the Scharnhorst's length, with scaffolding built up to look like the battleship's superstructure...
...young go-getter priests came out to replace him, talked about an airplane for making their interurban visits. "He's a case," said Father Jerry. "After all he's not so bad, if you take him the right way," said Father Steve, "anybody would get a bit queer in the topknot after being over thirty years out here alone." Then Father Chisholm had his last great triumph. When he saved Tycoon Chia's son, the proud, highly civilized, subtle Chinese had formally offered to become Christian. To Chia's great relief Father Chisholm said...
...seemed a queer ballad for a nun to tackle. But even at its climax-when the landlord's daughter warns her lover of the King's men, by shattering her breast with a musket shot-the Noyes was expertly joined by Sister Martina's warm, robust music...
Most visitors thought they were a little queer. But connoisseurs soon found that the Landis brothers' hoard contained the largest and most complete collection of Pennsylvania-Dutch arts and crafts in existence, and the Oberlaender Trust decided to build a museum on the farm where scholars and tourists might see what Henner and George had collected...
...doubt you have chapter and verse on it. It's just that it feels a little queer to see yourself quoted without the foggiest idea of where and when. If it was in one of the movie pieces I used to do for the New York Herald Tribune Sundays, you people have either astounding memories or a voluminous morgue...