Word: queered
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...action quickens, the figures take on clearer outline. Author Bishop's mist- clearing method is deliberate: the gradually opening eye which observes and slowly understands the story is that of a young boy. Observer-narrator is John, youngest member of a Virginia family whose blood is proud but queer. His grandfather is an eccentric lawyer. His dead father was a doctor who painted strange pictures. His Uncle Charlie has been a wildly attractive scapegrace from his youth up. As John grows into adolescence he becomes an increasingly sympathetic witness of Charlie's outrageous but somehow innocent goings...
...blood comes. The skin-narrative can be shortly told. Eugene Gant, youngest of his family, at 19 leaves his Southern home and goes to Harvard. His father, a Jeremiah miscast, is slowly dying. In Cambridge Eugene studies hard at his playwriting course, makes many a queer acquaintance, one good friend: Starwick, a Midwestern esthete. After going home for his father's funeral, and finishing his Harvard course, Eugene goes to Manhattan, teaches English for a while at a downtown college, then goes abroad. He gets little good out of England, finds Paris more to his taste. There he meets...
Greta's honeymoon was as queer as her courtship was sudden. Her Irish bridegroom, Sandy, had a way with women and a gift of gab, but the police were after him. On the little Polish steamer in which Sandy and Greta made their getaway from Ireland was a mysterious party of five Englishmen. Leader was Andrew, brilliant bachelor Oxford don, who hid his heroic light under a staid bushel. Andrew was the type of true adventurer, as Sandy was of the shoddy. The expedition's real purpose was not, as given out, to search for butterflies along...
...Louis' Pilgrim Church for the last seven years. Tall, grizzled, genial, he is the father of four daughters to each of whom he gave the middle name Porter. Much in demand as a college preacher, Dr. Stocking has written numerous ethical-whimsical books for children (Query Queer, The Golden Goblet, Mr. Friend...
...left her for many women and any book, she was faithful to him in her fashion. Vridar went to the University of Chicago, worked his way by slaving as janitor of an apartment building, tried vainly to find the right answer to his life in books, in the queer characters he ran up against, in "platonic"' friendships with women students. Finally he sent for Neloa. But by now their marriage was too near the rocks. When he told Neloa that he loved another woman and intended to leave her, Neloa despairingly drank poison. Too late Vridar knew he loved...