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...sandwiches were responsible for that. Hell of a thing anyhow--having to usher on the Dartmouth side. Showing those belligerent guys to their seats. Almost afraid to yell for Harvard. Having to listen to them cheer when any decent person would moan, and vice versa. Standing silent while their queer, savage Wahoo swelled and echoed. Well, here come some more of them. . . . Show your tickets. Keep moving, please...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 10/22/1938 | See Source »

...officers, although still on their feet, are as helpless as the Chinese, give off just as sharp an odor of ammonia-the smell of fear. Only two of them are actually reduced to green-faced semiconsciousness but by the end of the third day all of them have queer hallucinations-the pleasantest are those of a young junior officer who, as he pours oil through the aft latrine, chatters away to a naked debutante he met in Norfolk a few days earlier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Trick Hurricane | 10/10/1938 | See Source »

Flat cars at sidings were filled with armored trucks, already bedaubed with the queer stripes of camouflage...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Juniors Find Czechs Prepared To Resist Invasion by Nazis | 9/27/1938 | See Source »

...this queer situation is the Peasant Party, which must step up and vote if the November 6th election is to mean "national unity." Peasant Party henchmen promptly announced that their minimum terms were Government pardon for their leader, famed, rustic Wincenty Witos, who was jailed under the dictatorship of Marshal Pilsudski in 1930, escaped and fled to Czechoslovakia. Warsaw reports failed to reveal whether Marshal Smigly-Rydz is yet ready to have Wincenty Witos pardoned, recalled that Polish reactionaries attempted the assassination of persons who some years ago proposed this pardon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: Unity for War? | 9/26/1938 | See Source »

...That's very funny.You must come from Boston, because you're so queer. Where do you live, anyway...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 9/1/1938 | See Source »

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