Word: queered
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These unearthly creatures burrow into the dark recesses under, above, behind the visible serenity of the place, and turn switches, open and shut valves, carry around bulky objects and do all manner of queer things. They seem to know what they are doing, and there must be some system or order to their efforts, for the results are surprising...
...photographs, drawings, and paintings are dated from the pioneer years of railroading to the present time. Many queer looking engines are portrayed, including the "Samson", "Stoverbridge Lion", the "Norris", and "Boynton Bicycle Engine Number 1" This last contrivance had only one large wheel under the boiler with the engineer's cab located on top of the fireman's cab, the last located only a few feet above the road...
Thrice last week, jurists were titillated at the queer workings of French Justice...
...leaders, the exhibition proved that the freakishness of cubism, vorticism, other truculent cults, is quite defunct. There was little that was crude, nothing that was incoherent. Gaugin's bizarre self-portrait seemed to link his face with his own favorite Tahitian fruits; the sardonic humor of the piece was queer but clear. He displayed also a serene Breton landscape, a lovely canvas which could cause no retching among the most conservative. Forain's aphrodisiac The Charleston showed two vibrant white dancers, several paunchy satyr-spectators, was a triumph of contemporary comment. Picasso's The Mother, a suggestion of haggard peasantry...
Under the microscope a drop of pond scum can give hours of delightful study. What feels between the fingers like slime is, microscopically, an open lake crowded with queer vegetable and animal life...