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...York. In Manhattan, Mrs. Ruth Sears Baker Pratt, society widow, defeated Phelps Phelps, "Tammany Republican" for a G. O. P. nomination for Congress. In Queens, queer, sprawling borough, of New York City, lately notorious for a sewer-pipe scandal, the political heir of the scandalized Democratic administration, Bernard M. Patten, was renominated for Borough President, beating a "clean government" candidate...
Autogyro. A queer looking contrivance appeared above the Paris field Le Bourget last week, descended almost vertically, fluttered gently, birdlike, to the cement take-off before the hangars, came to a dead stop within a few yards, just as a Paris-London passenger plane thundered down a 500-yard take-off for an unpremeditated, complimentary contrast. "Bravo! bravo!" shouted the crowd, which closed in upon this curiosity. Thirty-year-old, blond, Spanish inventor Juan de la Cierva explained that though he had experimented with airplanes since he was 15, it was the first time he had ever made a long...
...freshmen were indistinguishable from all other freshmen. Queer and foolish in their actions, they scuffed off to their collegiate rooms a mile away from the "hill." Here they would play their victrolas, tinkle their absurd pianos, sing perhaps a parody of a song whose heroes should be Frankie and Meiklejohnnie, and even, it may be, pin sad pennants to their walls. Yet, in the next year, unlike the freshmen at Harvard, the freshmen at the University of Wisconsin, or most other freshmen in the U. S., something might happen to these freshmen that would change their minds. Reading about...
Early Victorian. This daughter had a daughter−out of wedlock−by a respectable village merchant, who kept the child, gentle Mary Anne, and lavished on her wealth, breeding, everything but a legitimate name. Queer, handsome Charles, heir to the Babyons, gave her that, and a son who adored...
...remote, jungled landscapes of India and in the alleyways of cities of Ceylon, music can be heard. To most occidental ears such music sounds queer and ugly, as the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra would sound queer to the inhabitants of the far places. Yet oriental music did not sound ugly to Leopold Stokowski, famed insurgent conductor of the Philadelphia Symphony. In fact during a recent and extensive tour of the Far East he stood "literally hypnotized ... by music such as western ears had never heard, wildly discordant but with overtones of grandeur." Always eager to shock the music-lovers of Philadelphia...