Word: queerly
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...true English style and in developing powers of invention. Few are those who can overcome the handicap of dialect and produce a story worthy of the name in the strange forms of tongue so affected by some writers. A weak tale is all the worse for being put into queer speech, and a good one is not bettered. It is possible that the two specimens of dialect in the present number are masterpieces, but it would take a keen judgment to detect the fact...
...Queer Things about Persia, by De Lorey and Sladen...
...third paper of Varied Outlooks by A. Davis 1L., in his self-sufficiency and in his arrogance of difference from ordinary human beings, is only less deformed than the unfortunate youth in "The Reckoning," by C. W. Wickersham 1L., who, having made an ass of himself generally, took "a queer shaped object" from his table drawer and "looked steadily down into the black muzzle" as the memorial clock "counted slowly, Ding, Dong--one, two, three, four, five." Why five rather than six, one wonders...
Recreation-"Queer Bait", by W. M. Hart A.M. '01; "Woodcraft", by W. A. Rollins...
...June number of the Monthly might be called rather scholarly than interesting. The "West of Paris," by W. M. Fullerton, is a description of the country made famous by the historical memories of Louis XIV and other figures of his time; the article is somewhat strained and obviously queer in style, but the interest of its keen, appreciative observations is sufficient to make one forget its defects. "The Renaissance Essay of Walter Pater," by K. C. M. Sills, "The Prose Style of Thomas Hardy," by J. P. Sanborn, Jr., and "Lowell's Political Ideas and Ideals," by H. L. Warner...