Word: queering
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...justify its own survival? He followed his accustomed path from his house on Exchange Street to the Gazette offices off Commercial, spoke to his neighbors, squared off for work before a desk that shed old letters, mementos, galleys, gifts, ideas, books and last year's calendars like some queer surrealistic fruit tree ready to drop its harvest. His thoughts were gloomy, but no trace of gloom showed on his round cherubic features which, he says, make him look like a rear view of Cupid and prevent his being taken as a serious thinker. He went home for the dinner...
...American peoples. We Mexicans feel great current cordiality, sympathy and profound friendship uniting us. We must fight fascism to the death and preserve democracy." Amused at his sudden conversion, the Mexican press dubbed it his "new testament." Observers wondered to what extent this change of heart reflected the always queer relations of Moscow and Berlin...
...voice is "as loud as fifty other men." Fortnight ago Mr. Taber had one of his shouting-fits, during debate on the Wage & Hour amendments. At one point, just as he let go his full bellow, he almost swallowed the microphone. The resultant blast from the amplifier did something queer to one of his auditors, Representative Leonard Schuetz of Chicago's Seventh District...
Many of the little tricks of the French movies, photomontage and queer camera angles, have been abandoned by Hollywood. But there is something refreshing in a technique which plays romantic drama against a landscape of dreams and by emphasizing facial close-ups rather than sweeping panoramas, "Kreutzer Sonata" makes simplicity a virtue. March of Time's famous study of American Youth and a backstage view of the Paris Ballet complete the program...
...survivor, Thomas H. Jones, said later: "I thought the world was coming to an end. . . ." Said Dr. Harold Thompson: "There was a terrible smash, bang and roar, followed by a queer grinding. ... I was tossed along the aisle of the car. There was utter darkness. The most remarkable thing was the great silence that followed...