Word: queering
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...queer way of practicing diplomacy is to sign an agreement, keep the text secret, and then create a furore in the international press by openly alluding in provocative, general terms to what has been agreed. Such a course might be christened "Secropen Diplomacy." Such was the course steered, last week, by British Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain and French Foreign Minister Aristide Briand. They sent a résumé of their secret agreement to U. S. Secretary of State Frank Billings Kellogg, who was not authorized to divulge its text...
...more the psychiatrist, his favorite study still the positive and negative reactions of sex attraction and repulsion. At their best the short stories of the present collection are a neurological graph done into Lawrence's powerful prose, and at their predominant worst (witness the title story) they are queer extravaganzas of symbology...
...Using a queer,concave-faced, wooden putter, Thomas Armour won the Metropolitan Open Golf Championship last week, at the Shackamaxon Country Club, Westfield, N. J. John Farrell, National Open champion, finished second...
...ostensibly set out to investigate a "wholesale buying" corporation called the Decimo Club, Inc., and had told his State the Decimo Club was perfectly legal after receiving from it covertly a $25,000 fee. Other queer firms that Mr. Reading kept out of the hands of the law paid him $35,000 more...
...This queer, shining allegory which was hung up last week for gum-chewers to look at and connoisseurs to appreciate, was threaded together at some time near the middle of the 15th century...