Word: queering
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...fourth opera (Der Fliegende Holländer}, the first intimation of the power he was to set forth in Tristan and Die Götterddämmerung. Wagner had the Dutchman cast ashore with a Norwegian captain called Daland. Daland had a daughter, Senta, whose fancy had been taken by the queer stories about the Dutchman. She offered him the love which would save him but he doubted her and she threw herself into the sea. Whereupon the phantom ship went down and the Dutchman too found the death he had so long sought...
...seem queer now, but in the old days men fought on horseback. James Ewell Brown ("Jeb") Stuart was one of the best of them. When the Civil War began he was 27, a regular U. S. cavalry officer, six years out of West Point. When a Yankee trooper's bullet brought him down at Yellow Tavern he was the 31-year-old Major-General commanding the cavalry and horse artillery of Lee's Army of Northern Virginia. Captain Thomason, a soldier who likes his trade, a Southerner (from Texas) whose ancestors fought the Yankees, is a good...
...likes him as a brother, as a reminder of the strange happy days when the family was together. But Sebastian is too much the turbulent, nose-thumbing Sanger for intimate comradeship. And Caryl, so far as Sebastian is concerned, is little more than the fool of the family, a queer fellow simply because he is quite without eccentricity or individuality of any sort. When they meet, things usually happen to the advantage of Sebastian, whether he especially wants them...
...Curie's followers in Paris predicted that she will soon have another startling discovery to announce. Meanwhile she sat patiently in her tiny laboratory in the Latin Quarter in Paris, working from ten to 20 hr. a day with uranium oxide to find out more about that queer radioactive family which begins with uranium and ends as lead. Since she knows most about radium she is now studying uranium and polonium, which she discovered in 1898 and named for her native Poland...
...expecting anything to happen. She ate too many chocolates, went too often to the cinema. Then one day she met young Hugh Miller, nephew of Tom's boss. Hugh was an aristocrat who did everything well, even wandering. They met only a few times. He thought she was queer but rather nice, soon forgot her when he went away. Her memory of him lasted the rest of her life...