Word: queered
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...tradition. But he would be Mayor of Detroit, and the professional politicians got him when he started to take himself too seriously; his children turned out unexpectedly, as children do; he ended, a punctured balloon? rather wondering why. There seemed to be no answer except that life was a queer affair. A sound, capable novel...
...music publishing enterprises of both Austria and Germany have been ruined, and the most famous houses have been barely able to exist. A queer and ironical turn of luck enters here. The Teutonic publisher of cultural works in general has long been noted for his courage and self-abnegation. The story of the publisher and Einstein is characteristic. Einstein brought his manuscript, saying that there were a dozen men in the entire world who would be able to understand it. The publisher replied meditatively that he would print the work. The music houses constantly got out editions of composers...
...performance encountered a queer series of mishaps. Joseph Schwarts, formerly of the Chicago Opera House, who was to have sung the important baritone rôle of Rigoletto, could not be found on the day of the opera. Another baritone, named to sing in his place, was taken ill shortly before the curtain rose. A third baritone finally went on stage in Rigoletto's cap and bells...
...Broom, queer art magazine, has removed from Europe to America, skipping two issues in the process. There is more art to insurge about in Europe, but economic conditions are better here...
...Widow Cagle, moonshiner's relict, hated Yankees and Yankee laws. The War was a Yankee war? she couldn't see why her only son, newly married, should go off and fight in it?fight in this queer place, France, that she thought of as a few miles away from Asheville. But he goes?and is killed. So far, the tragedy is moving, individual and complete. And then comes an act of creaky melodrama?the son of old Pappy Cagle's slayer (a former revenooer) turns up as a deserter from the army?the Widow is about to kill him?business...