Word: queerer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...foremost exponent of the Baconian theory (that Bacon wrote Shakespeare). Author of an emphatic volume that traced civilization's origins to a vanished continent (Atlantis: The Antediluvian World), Donnelly would have been a queer bird in any aviary. But he seemed still queerer against his own hard-working background of Niniger, Minn., and his writings were all the more exceptional in view of his political career. Lieutenant governor of Minnesota when he was 28, Donnelly was a Republican Congressman at 32, held that post throughout the Civil War. A superb orator of the bull-roaring Bryan school, he plumped...
...nothing new in the League report on Liberian slave conditions. It is important because it exonerates the U. S. Firestone rubber interests of slaving. This was most important to Secretary Stimson. If he had whitewashed Firestone while tarring Liberia, the whole thing might have looked queer to Europe, queerer to Latin America...