Word: queered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...queer day for the tidy, twisty mining town of Bentleyville, Pa. (pop. 4,000). Over the deserted tipple of the nearby Hillman Coal & Coke Co. the Stars & Stripes dropped wanly. Bentleyville's miners, already in their second day of idleness (they had walked out early), were underfoot everywhere, painting and patching their boxlike houses on the still-green hills, playing catch in the streets, window-shopping, lounging in front of the Methodist Church. On sunny Main Street, Bentleyville's housewives hustled through their marketing with a troubled air. Unless Mr. Lewis won or called off the strike...
...help the production to tally with the author's conception of it as a play about "communism and sex, but which does not take sides on the question of the former." His objective, he said, was to illustrate to those who consider communism and its advocates unnatural, queer, and removed from all semblance of normality that communists can be real people with real passions and lasts and needs, "just like everybody else." His characters, however, actually are rather removed from normality, and the passions and lasts carried to a point where the communist leaders resemble potential rapists. When not engaged...
Without much warning, the background music suddenly takes on a menacing note and Katy finds herself involved in a psychological mystery. Who is this brother of Taylor's who must never be mentioned? Like the audience, Katy has never met .the mysterious relative whose name drives Taylor into queer fits of hysterical reticence. Unlike the audience, she is consumed with curiosity and foreboding about her missing inlaw. Amid some embarrassing melodrama, it begins to look as if Taylor is a scoundrel, maybe a murderer, and-worst fate of all-the short side of a romantic triangle...
...women often think us queer...
Americans Present. They shared the Festspielhaus' 1,600 seats with U.S. officers and their families, for whom nearly one-third of the tickets were reserved, and some of the queer fish who have doubled Salzburg's population since V-E day. Salzburg has become an ideal hideout for big-& small-fry Nazis, and has replaced Istanbul as a center for intrigue. (Favorite gag in the Vienna cafés: "If you are not a member of the Nazi Party, then what were you doing in Salzburg...