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...form, promising to be another best-seller of the stature of The Late George Apley. Comparison of the two versions showed that the Post's seven installments accented Brill foibles, heightened the picturesqueness of the story, diluted its satire, toned down the dialogue ("so damn screwy" to "so queer"), cut out Narrator Calder's cynical reflections on love ("all lovers are consummate bores"), on writing popular fiction for the big magazines ("a somewhat ghastly parody on life"), blotted out one character (the narrator's mistress) entirely. All told, Literary Agent Carl Brandt cut about 90,000 words...
...hanging on the events of the passing hour, he yet has such a wealth of simple bonhommie & good fellowship that he gets out of bed & perambulates the house in his shirt to find us that we may share with him the fun of one of poor Hood's queer little conceits...
...rejuvenated Vag steps out on deck again, four congratulatory postcards are shoved into his hand. He reads them--queer code. Cee, cee, cee, dee. He sighs contentedly, then yawns. Pressure...
Another one, even more pathetic looking had a queer type of reversed gills which extracted oxygen form the water all right, but tasted of using air a national scale, co-operating with the committee on education of the International conference at Lime, Peru, and to cultivate a wider understanding of political, economic and social aspects which the Americas have in common...
...Annual Report of the Society for the Education of Imbecile Youth in Scotland"; "A Method of Learning to Read, Write, and Speak English for the Use of Chinese Pupils"; and "The Report of the Widows' Society of Boston" are three of the queer titles found by Miss Barbara Tisdale, Radcliffe '35, in her work of cataloguing 40,000 pamphlets, magazines, tracts, letters, and catalogues for use in the graduate schools of the University...