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...scatters rather indiscriminately throughout his book. His own pupil he saw apparently only once, but he was pestered nearly to death by his tutor Abdul who, despite profuse apologies, was always "boring upon" his time. When the day of departure came, however, he was half sad to leave these queer Hindus. They, with their queer illogic, hit the nail of his experience on the head: "Four days of moonlight-then darkness," say they, sadly contemplating life...
What Price Hollywood (RKO). Hollywood stories, about the vagaries of cinema producers, the diversions of their employes, reached the dignity of the stage two years ago in Once in a Lifetime. Last year Howard Hughes wanted to make a savage picture about Hollywood called Queer People. He was dissuaded. What-Price Hollywood is the first cinema upon the subject...
...social life: Jews & Gentiles, radicals & conservatives soon lost their disparity of viewpoint. But the cleavage between non-fraternity men and fraternity men widened, until few men with joining proclivities entered the Experimental College. The University, too, felt the Experimental College to be "queer," disloyal, hostile. In two years the number of Experimental College students from Wisconsin dropped from 45 to eleven...
...most readers will be more interested in their daily doings than in discovering which one of them murdered the two American boys. Just out of college, the boys were taking an innocent tramp through Europe, landed up by chance in Trapani, capital of Corisco. Things were buzzing in that queer town. Former Minister Karadagh, recently released from jail, was plotting to depose the sinister fat eunuch, Taabor Pasha, Corisco's highly oriental Prime Minister. French Financier Martignac was making negotiations concerning a loan. At a diplomatic tea given by Mrs. Early, Karadagh's English mistress, the boys...
...kinds of odd figures and queer items poured forth from the mute pages of the 1931-32 records of the purchasing office yesterday, when they were pulled from their steel filling-cabinets...