Word: queered
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...sophisticated tourist who saw the Passion Play at Oberammergau last summer may have heard the devil whispering in his ear. "It's queer but is it art?" Yet whether he shuddered at the obtrusive realism or twitched in his seat through the long choral renditions, he could not but be impressed by the character of the players. Nobody could quesion their zeal, their industry, and their lack of business ability, which is an earmark of the artist...
...then some individual finds his vocabulary cramping and proceeds to inflate it. If he is a man of affairs, with little time to study the dictionary, he may resort to his own inspiration. Such pressure from within gave us "normalcy", a queer word which turns in on itself twice and comes out with a meaning contained in its first four letters. From the same source came a more recent addition to the American vocabulary, the word "humorically" which is seen to have a shade of meaning all its own. A Senator's mind fired by the spell of oratory...
...events, it has long served as the sovereign remedy for all personal "humours", biasses, and quirks of character. From time immemorial boys have used this method in bringing their "queer" companions up to normal. To them the customary has meant perfection, the conventional has been their idea of the correct. Unfortunately this view and the habit of trying to force everyone to "do what the crowd does", has been the means of crushing many an extraordinary personality when it was in the formative stage. Shelley's classmates did their best to force his queerness into the average path, but fortunately...
...having seen a football game-a "pride in ignorance" plainly inappropriate, and fortunately not prevalent among men who are interested in a "college education". "But certainly these who have never seen a football game are rarer than those who have never been to Appleton, and are regarded as more "queer...
...James Barrie is one man of the older generation who can count on a sympathetic ear from youth. He knows youth, not as the outsider looking in, but as the warm friend who can put himself in the place of others, feal their emotions, and see the queer twists of view that make up their individual outlook on life. His recent address to the students of St. Andrews Universtiy is loaded with his particular brand of whimay; it is loaded also with the most cheerful advice, and words of encouragement that students will be tempted to heed. Such a remark...