Word: queering
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...long in coming. There was a man out there, a man from the North, whose name was John Brown. He had a queer look in his eye and he hated the Slaves. It didn't take him long to draw the blood of Kansas. It spilled at Leavenworth, and it spilled at Lawrence, and all the while John Brown exulted in it, exulted in his rifle and in killing, killing the enemy. The calm of the nation was shattered, and once more the North and South took up the ancient battle-cries, revived the sputtering debates in Congress...
...fans because of his claim that Artie Shaw's retirement from the dance business was due to more than a desire for philosophical peace and tranquility; that in fact it was a rather hasty exodus. We have quite plainly thought that Artie was at times more than a little queer in his actions...
...late fabulous Andrew Carnegie; and James Frederick Gordon Thomson, 43, sporty Edinburgh lawyer: their first child, a daughter; on the Carnegie estate, Skibo Castle, Scotland. Once reminisced an old Skibo servant: "I'll not forget the way he [Carnegie] looked up at the castle with that queer smile o' his. 'Steel built yon hame,' the auld mon said, 'but it's love that'll keep it together when I'm called away...
...Manhattan's sombre old Grand Central Palace, through whose innards move dozens of expositions every year: whirring, clanking, buzzing, gurgling machines, bottles of queer-looking powders, crystals and liquids-the Exposition of Chemical Industries. ... In Manhattan's far-from-sombre Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, under soft lights, on soft rugs, with lyrical commentary, comely models in dazzling clothes: a special show of synthetic fabrics for the Congress of Industry. . . . The scenes were dissimilar but the purposes were the same: to extol the marvels of modern chemistry...
...queer thing, jealousy, Vag mused. It sits behind the scenes like old Stockmar, doing its work silently. Rarely does anyone see it operate; even those whom it tears apart are sometimes not conscious of it until too late. Vaguely, Vag remembered reading of termites who burrow unseen within a beautiful and apparently strong house; then, suddenly, the house collapses. It was something like that with people. Jealousy, like a poison--perhaps like a cancer; but worse, since a cancer, if discovered early, can be cured--constantly, subtly tries to gain acceptance in the mind. Once the entering wedge is injected...