Word: queered
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...Corp. (shoes) out of $50,000 by circulating through its Binghamton plant thousands of forged piecework claim tickets. While squads of CCC boys were set to work digging up several acres of land near Riverhead, L. I., where the ring was supposed to have buried $45,000 of "the queer" along with its engraving plates, the identity of the curiously assorted prisoners was made known...
...York City parents clutched their newspapers in wide-eyed alarm one day last week. They had often suspected that teachers as a class were a little queer. But here in big black headlines was the appalling assertion that no less than 1,500 of New York's public school teachers were actually unbalanced. Many were hopelessly insane, some almost maniacs. Reading down, startled parents learned of a teacher so self-conscious that she had poked a chair-leg into a boy's eye and twisted it ''to distract attention of the class" from herself. Another...
...village brings Forster-Daintree to the dock after his wife's death and his almost immediate second marriage. Although he is acquitted, the whisper of poisoner still persists. The village doors are locked at night. Twined throughout the district are the tendrils of the Forster family, spoiled and queer from intermarriage and frustration. When death of the clan's head reveals murder for pride, the village breathes again, but does not understand...
...floor of Romola's mother's house. She proved a stern jailer. Nijinsky was a hated Russian. His status as a dancer was forgotten. He had no space to practice, spent his time working on a system for annotating the dance. The authorities heard about his queer hieroglyphics, suspected him of spying. Banker Otto Hermann Kahn was responsible for the Nijinskys' release. He wanted the Diaghilev Ballet to come to New York and he wanted Nijinsky. But Diaghilev never forgot his grudge and Nijinsky's wife blames him for the long chain of misfortunes which...
...Hepburn characterization of Trigger as a queer, hot-tempered warmhearted hoyden is wasted on the picture. In mood and manner Spitfire belongs to an obsolete era in the cinema. Typical shot: Trigger describing a lout who has tried to kiss her as "consared Son of Satan...