Word: queered
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...more unfaithful to its material than other, franker attempts to make scenarios out of Conrad's books. The adventurous and fantastic shell of the story has been preserved; the thought that burned behind Conrad's carved phrases and balanced sentences like light behind a stained glass window, making the queer figures in the glass live after a fashion, is gone. Nancy Carroll is a girl who plays the violin and sings in Zangiacomo's Ladies' Orchestra in a South Sea island hotel run by a man named Schomberg. Richard Arlen helps 'her to escape from disgusting fates imminent...
...household is a queer one: marriage and children not being allowed her, she has adopted old broken-down waifs and strays, who give her nothing but jealous abuse, but on whom she can spend-her affection. She knew that "life had no wonderful surprises after all and that its most difficult burden was the incommunicability of love." Chrysis thinks she has grown beyond passion, but in spite of herself falls in love with Pamphilus, most silent of her guests, the son of the principal man on the island. But one day Pamphilus meets Chrysis' younger sister, Glycerium...
Some of his classmates knew enough Latin to translate him into "Opifex," a Smith. Reduced to "'Pifex," this was his appelation henceforth. His college days must have prefigured the rest of his strange life. After he was graduated his Smiths made him a fat allowance, but he was a queer lad, he was. He wore out the patience of his patrons. They cast him off. He became a sort of tramp. He tried his fortune in mining camps, in New York buoket shops, in the Chicago grain market. He even haunted, as his chaste Cambridge biographer puts it, "sections...
...Russian Composer Sergei Prokofiev who appeared also as pianist. No stranger in U. S. music halls is Composer Prokofiev. He used to be railed at as the enfant terrible among moderns, a name belied by his pleasant. Pucklike presence. But since others have outdone him in the making of queer, dissonant patterns, the public has found him less disturbing, more to be accepted. Prokofiev too has changed in the past ten years. Now 38, leading an unheckled life in Manhattan, he writes more simply and with greater deference to melody. Yet it was music done in his first, scorned manner...
...arid Mojave Desert, a queer, experimental bird tried its wings last week. It is the product of the Northrup Aircraft Corp., designed by John Northrup, one-time Lockheed Vega engineer and W. K. Jay, pilot. Their queer bird is all wing-with a 60-h. p. motor and pusher propeller, retractable three-wheel landing gear, a skinny polelike arrangement for flippers and rudders, seats within the wing itself. Indicated performance characteristics of this trial plane are: low landing speed, high speed of over 100 m. p. h., large gliding angle, and little probability of spinning...