Word: queered
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...many other singular nooks beside. A guide who has had extraordinary opportunities for observing every changing aspect of a great and diverse city for more than IS years, who has a curious, stumbling power for description, he can set before you with every detail of reality, the queer places, persons and events that he has seen...
...That queer communication which appeared Friday gave me a complex of feelings, however. In addition to its amazing construction, and its refreshingly original grammar and punctuation, this jovial missive presented a viewpoint on University affairs which is, to say the least surprising. It barks back to a type of thinking prevalent in those dark times long before the University was founded. Men in those days beat their wives conscientiously, since that was the easiest way to work off unpleasant emotions. Nowadays we have the newspapers, and "Communications...
...monotonous rhythm of beating drums" which the CRIMSON critic declares gave the crowds in the stands five minutes of "weariness if not of disgust", took exactly two minutes and a half and elicited tremendous applause. If the majority of the people in the stands were suffering, they used a queer method of expressing pain...
...kisses in public. He fled back to his puppet companions for comfort and found none. In his absence even his poor reputation for rowdiness had faded. He returned to his wife for consolation only to discover her hankering for a husband of greater elegance and ardor. Spring came-the queer intoxication of love stirred universally. Mrs. Holly and Christopher Lane, the young poet who was Papa Jonas' assistant, found romance in a seagoing hack; even Jane Demonstration went in search of love to her doom. But to Mr. Aristotle, Spring only brought despair-he had suffered many minor indignities...
...moment seems the most unlikely-an economic union based on coal in the Ruhr and iron in Lorraine, a union gradually cemented into firm understanding and industrial alliance. At least such a plan would offer the hope of lasting peace. And history has before this played tricks as queer...