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...Born April 29, 1901, he is 29 (the Empress is 28) by Western reckoning; but Japanese hold that everyone is a year old at birth. Japanese think it queer that, since everyone has unquestionably been alive for some time before birth, Westerners cling to the obvious absurdity of reckoning a newborn babe as of zero...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Short Sword, Purple Skirt | 3/16/1931 | See Source »

...majority of her acquaintance in disliking her. She had been as far as the U. S. (as a governess) but never far from starvation; she had intimations both of immortality and madness. Men had taught her to fear love. She welcomed Henri as a kind of son-brother. This queer pair lived together, in France and England, for five years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Genius, Died Young* | 3/16/1931 | See Source »

...Mare never speaks out, never clothes his spooks in a simple declarative manner. They might be merely states of mind, queer tricks of sensation, strange coincidences. There is nothing solid in this dank mistiness that you can lay your finger on, but you feel it. Sometimes it chills you to the bone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Borderline Cases | 2/23/1931 | See Source »

When Bank Clerk Jim Blake found his boss in conference with a man who had a long red scar on the back of his hand, he had the feeling that something queer was afoot. This goes to show that in a mystery story not even the hero should jump to conclusions. Still, you can hardly blame Jim (who was not overly given to suspicion), for he never laid eyes again on the scarred man till they suddenly met in a dripping cavern, in the dark. Between those two meetings Jim had plenty to think about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Yarn, Well-Spun | 2/23/1931 | See Source »

...Happy Endings," best story in the book, the narrator describes his pre-War crammer's school for the Army, the queer lives of its personnel, what happy endings the late great War brought to them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Atheism to Theosophy* | 2/9/1931 | See Source »

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