Word: queered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...better adjusted" than city folks? Back-to-nature enthusiasts, who like to think so, had reason last week to think again. A recent case study of a typical Ohio rural county found that country people, in spite of their slower-paced living, are just as frustrated, neurotic and generally queer as anybody else-perhaps more...
...baby here before the christening because I thought he might not like it about the color. . .. And he said, [the baby] was . .. 'about the color of Jesus Christ.' My dear, wasn't that a terrible thing to say? He's ever such a queer man ... I shouldn't think he'd ever get to be a bishop...
...world is queer but me and thee, dear; and sometimes I think thee is a little queer...
...Lunarium. Yet the older Adams grew, the more he soured and the louder became his mocking. "I bob like a buoy in a seasick ocean," he complained. "I flop and paddle about in my own hyper-spaces. . . . The whole thing here looks like a general Lunarium. ... A queer Byzantine world, it is, and a pure waste of life to live...
...Parrots. One of these jaunts took him to Samoa in 1890. There he met Robert Louis Stevenson, already nearing the end of his short, tuberculous career. "Stevenson and his wife were perched - like queer birds - mighty queer ones too. Stevenson has cut some of his hair; if he had not, I think he would have been positively alarming. He never seems to rest, but perches like a parrot on every available projection, jumping from one to another and talking incessantly. The parrot was very dirty and ill-clothed, being perhaps caught unawares, and the female was inTrather worse trim than...