Word: queered
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...artists delicately tuned their queer looking instruments to the note A from a piano. Then they played some of the eeriest, sweetest, funniest, saddest, sourest and most heavenly music ever heard. The first concert of the sextet of emiritons roused occasional flutters of approval and once in a while a great burst of laughter. Bach, Mozart, Wagner, Tchaikovsky and Beethoven never batted...
...minutes the rifleman felt better. He stood up, fingering the tip of the fountain pen. A passing tank carried him to the battalion aid station. There the surgeon stared at the queer arrangement in his neck and sent him on. Next stop was the clearing station, where Captain David Dunn of Westminster, Md. removed the pen top, put in a regular tracheotomy tube (which the air passes through, not around, as in the case of the makeshift wedge...
...Sidney and the overseer are obviously sinister from the start; little by little the aunt & uncle begin to seem queer to her too. In the most promising stretch of the picture, as she flinches in terror of groaning shutters and sudden extinctions of the lights, or follows the beckoning of inchoate voices into the swamp, it is as impossible for the audience as for the victim to know what is plain fact, what is the hallucination of a crumbling mind, who if anybody is to be trusted...
What were the issues of this queer campaign, as it went into its last feverish fortnight? They were...
...little lines strung up anywhere, on a wire fence, between two bumpers, two branches, across the pavement. During the hot days they wore trunks of the briefest style, looked very healthy and brown, and happy too. They really behaved like boys, playing ball, wrestling, and all sorts of queer games, and how they loved harmonicas, banjos and guitars...