Word: queered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Clean Liver. At 52, Seattle's first citizen neither looks nor lives like most of the sportswriting clan. To them he is a queer, aloof fish who never works in shirtsleeves, never smokes, drinks or swears. But he goes with the boys who do, and sometimes, on out-of-town trips, writes their stuff for them when they get plastered. Six days a week he eyes the sports field once over lightly, knocks out a chatty, chummy column called the Morning After. At the small Dunlap Baptist Church, in a rundown part of town, Brougham teaches a Sunday school...
...such miscellaneous ingredients as plot and cast, the former is slight and the latter is slick. Full of such odd characters as a valet recruited from the Salvation Army who refers to himself as "we" and a typical Edward Everett Horton queer played by Edward Everett Horton, the picture supplies at least a token of filler between the main-event Rogers Astaire routines...
Like many another adopted child, Harold Alfred Segur often wondered: "Who am I? Who are my parents? What is my real name?" He got no clues from his foster mother, Mrs. Mary Baker, a Boston woman who raised him from infancy. But he had a queer notion that his father was big, handsome Dr. Willard B. Segur, who married Mrs. Baker when Harold was seven. The doctor treated Harold better than most men treat their adopted sons. As a youth in Enfield, Mass., Harold often thought the doctor talked to him as though they were of the same flesh & blood...
...Climbing all day long was tough like hell. The Americans who were wrecked . . . gave me coffee with milk and whiskey in it. I have never tried anything so bad. Must be queer people to drink that. But I like them...
...sort of modern Kit Carson, the strong silent Gary Cooper plainsman type. He'll always be broke-else why would he take all these queer jobs? He'll have lots of gals-one at every port. Naturally one of the problems will be to keep him single. I want to make him one of those guys that's sloppy as hell in his flying clothes, then can get dressed up in the evening and look like...