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From the Journal readers could learn about the "Girl Killed by Automobile," the "Injured Man Left in Street," the " 'Queer' Money Being Spread in This City" and the Treasury's daily balance. Strike propaganda was mostly confined to the editorial page, which appealed to "the good will of a citizenry which loves fair play...
Most of the 60-odd characters are a queer lot. Catherine's greatest friends were a retired courtesan, a worn-out sea captain, and the gravedigger's daughter, who was considered hardly decent because her only dress was a sack. At the inn where peg-legged Pamploix spent his evenings the innkeeper's wife was so squint-eyed that habitues would order a drink from one end of the bar, then slink quickly to the other end, where the drink would be served. It was the great ambition of the baker's old father, a paralytic...
Narrator of The Last of Mr. Norris is a young English Communist-intellectual. On a train to Berlin he shares a compartment with an older man, whose beautiful wig and inexplicable nervousness excite his curiosity. The young man soon discovers many a queer fact about bewigged Mr. Norris: he is a masochist, his affairs are suspiciously vague, he is somehow under the thumb of his surly secretary. Sometimes Mr. Norris seems to be rolling in money; the next, he is in Micawberish straits. Consistently disingenuous, he is soon shown to be a clumsy but optimistic liar. But the young...
...seems awfully queer," said Alice, glancing over the morning news, "that in this section it says Hitler wants peace, and over here it says the Fuehrer has ordered a bigger army, and more battleships and a greater air fleet and more submarines...
...That's not queer at all," interrupted the Mad Hutter, who was feeling very sprite this May morning, "it's just you don't understand logic...