Word: queered
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Some Chinamen have queer names...
...turned off the running lights and headed the ship slowly up into the wind. But almost immediately the green light turned into red and green and the black form of a cost guard cutter came out full against the sky. It steamed closer, and came alongside. In a queer voice the Vagabond tried to be nonchalant. "Bound for Marblehead," he called. "Leaving Bar Harbor, Maine . . . a fine night...
Hospital internes on emergency call sometimes have queer cases to.handle in a hurry. Last week in Manhattan, Interne David Wassermann of City Hospital had the queerest one in his four-month career. He found his patient, a small, plucky handyman named Marion Garey, wrapped in elevator cables over the elevator shaft of a 16-story hotel. The cables held the man so tightly that he could move only his left arm. And with this he was dully smoking a cigaret when Dr. Wassermann arrived...
...soprano long. In consequence he frequently records Bobby's songs far in advance of production, so that no Lesser picture, once started, will have to be scrapped should Bobby turn baritone overnight. In Hawaii Calls Bobby's voice holds up; it is the picture that takes the queer turns...
Ignatius Donnelly was known in his own day as the foremost exponent of the Baconian theory (that Bacon wrote Shakespeare). Author of an emphatic volume that traced civilization's origins to a vanished continent (Atlantis: The Antediluvian World), Donnelly would have been a queer bird in any aviary. But he seemed still queerer against his own hard-working background of Niniger, Minn., and his writings were all the more exceptional in view of his political career. Lieutenant governor of Minnesota when he was 28, Donnelly was a Republican Congressman at 32, held that post throughout the Civil...