Word: queered
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...Queer Feeling...
...Personal-Queer feeling Ed had the day Wing On and Sincere were bombed. I had left the office at 12:15 p.m. with Y. T. Lee for Wing On's. The bombing took place at 1 :05 p. m. Ed thought I had lingered at Wing On's. To satisfy himself called up the house and was relieved when I answered the phone...
Arrested with five other men, Father Balaban was haled before a U. S. commissioner in St. Louis, charged with having possessed apparatus for making the "queer," having given a homemade $20 bill to a parishioner of 15 years' standing. Father Balaban's bond was set at $40,000. He went to jail, since his congregation not only declined to raise the bond but ousted him as pastor. The U. S. head of the Serbian Eastern Orthodox Church, Bishop Zivoin Ristanovich, suspended Father Balaban, advised his onetime flock to "keep faith, remain quiet, and pray for a just ending...
...Father Balaban fell in with two Croats from his native Yugoslavia, Michael Markalj, who later began turning out spurious money in Pittsburgh, and Pete Klickovich, who supervised passing it. Other Croats bought printing supplies and shipped them to Pittsburgh, where last week Secret Service men seized 1,500 "queer" $20 bills. According to Secret Service men, who said they had taken motion pictures of some of the Croat conferences, the ring planned to pass 5,000 notes in the U. S., then move with 5,000 more to unsuspecting Yugoslavia...
...English Dictionary, edited by Sir James A. H. Murray and others, under spit (Vol. IX, Pt. I, p. 628), he will find cited such English colloquialisms as: "you are a queer fellow-the very spit of your father." ... In The English Dialect Dictionary, edited by Joseph Wright, Ph.D., LL.D., Professor of Comparative Philology in the University of Oxford, under spit (Vol. V, pp. 669-670), he will find other examples of old English usage: "that barn's as like his fadder as an he'd been spit out of his mouth." . . . The same saying is to be found...