Word: queering
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...queer fact that French shipyards rivet together no cargo boats but build only passenger ships was excitably commented on last week by buoyant Louis Rollin who, now rejoicing in the title of French Minister of Marine, is one of the most irrepressible go-getters in the Cabinet of "Tardieu l'Américain...
...been said that the success of Perdriat resembles that of a cinema actress, in its brevity, its monetary aspect, its exaggerations. Her first painting, a landscape done with her finger nails and bits of cotton, was immediately acquired by the Queen of Norway. The queer Perdriat legend promptly began, a legend fostered by that somewhat anonymous and powerful group, "her friends," who apparently had been already convinced of her genius and were waiting only for the opportunity to lavish praises on its fruits...
Some of the Times's friends realized with sympathy that its queer deer story was only a shade more embarrassing than a story which the Times printed in September. Receiving a flash from Buenos Aires that the bovine championship of the Argentine had been, won by an animal named Esther Bletchley Challenge, the Times sonorously reported...
...reporters playing bridge in the office late at night comes Chief of Detectives Crewe, looking for his old friend Sands, a better detective than reporter. There has been a murder, and a queer one. The dead man sits at his dining room table, lashed to his chair; breakfast has been laid for four, but nobody has touched it; everywhere is the thick stink of nicotine. The setting is melodramatic, but the action is confused, realistic: the policemen, the loudmouthed, lowbrowed coroner, the witnesses at the inquest, are photographically true to type. The satire on things political, policial, is at times...
...queer thing is the fact that when a man with hypertrophied prostate dies, the swelling speedily disappears. Postmorticians cannot get the gland enlarged (for laboratory work) from cadavers...