Word: queered
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Americans are infinitely queer Say the Haitians, with a jeer. They think in terms
Witch & Minster. At the core of the book is a miracle. While digging the foundation for a new Franciscan cloister, young Edwin Widowson unearths a queer, antique fist of pure gold. The friars set a guard to it, but the next night Edwin, persuaded by outlaws, filches the treasure and leaves in its place the hand of his brother, who has been hanged. "Miracle!" cry the good friars in the morning...
Whatever else it did, the investigation would hurt Morris' effort to get subpoena powers from Congress. He just did not seem to be made for either the giving or receiving end of an investigation. As he himself put it: "I am a queer kind of guy. You probably wouldn't understand me . . . It is kind of hard to explain. I guess I am a softy, Mr. Chairman...
...Fogg Large Room's peeling pink walls which attract the examgoer's attention, nor the tightly packed seats with their writing boards tilted at odd angles by long usage. It is the queer lighting arrangement, consisting of ceiling lamps with low wattage bulbs encased in cardboard sheaths...
...almost everything.; An old line of his, "The air is like wine tonight," used to make audiences choke with laughter a couple of decades ago. When he would simply say, "I think I'll go out and get a cold towel," then start for the wings with the queer, buzzardy shuffle he used for a walk, it would leave the audience strangling. Because nowadays he seldom moves from the high stool he sits on during broadcasts, the buzzardy shuffle is gone. But the rest of the delivery is still there, as good or better than ever: the perfectly timed twitch...