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...Queer People, by Authors Carroll & Garrett Graham, is a novel which satirizes Hollywood in almost libelous terms. Its horrid characters are drawn so plainly from life that they set Hollywood's hair on end. The hero is a drunken and unscrupulous libertine who, while performing ably as "professor"' in a sporting house, receives a splendid tip from a producer whose identity Hollywood sophisticates claim to know. The heroines of Queer People are insistently immoral and the scene of their depravities seems to combine the worst features of Sodom and Gomorrah. The uproar of Hollywood's bigwigs...
...Germans, French Canadians. "I used to ride home in the most unreasonable state of excitement; I always felt as if they had told me so much more than they said-as if I had actually got inside another person's skin." She likes Nebraska: "It's a queer thing about the flat country-it takes hold of you, or it leaves you perfectly cold. A great many people find it dull and monotonous; they like a church steeple, an old mill, a waterfall, country all touched up and furnished, like a German Christmas card. I go everywhere...
Sirs: In reference to your "Queer Drugs" on p. 24 of July 6 issue in regard to a Japanese Silky fowl. This bird has a normal tail, and is not to be confused with the Yokohama or Phoenix chicken of which there is a specimen in the Tokyo museum with a tail covert length...
...Druggists frequently get requests, occasionally by a doctor's prescription, for such queer, almost forgotten but nonetheless authentic remedies...
...faint harmonics. No lavish diapasoner of thundering chords, Andre Gide picks out his effects with a spare but accurate choice. habelle is the story of love at first sight that withered not from Time but from a second glance. Young Student Lacase, searching materials for his thesis, visits the queer country household of La Quartfourche. They are all old people there except one crippled boy, grandson to one couple, great-nephew to the other. The boy's absent mother, Isabelle. still young, still beautiful, is never mentioned. But she is allowed to come back twice a year...