Word: queerly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...plot involved in the production is not very weighty ballast. Lady Huntworth, the defendant in a recent divorce case, seeks retirement in the disguise of a cook in the home of an elderly ulcar. Here she makes a real success, turning out fascinating edibles and causing queer vibrations in the hearts of the male population. Among these is Captain Dovaston, who is preparing to carry out the dying wish of his old leader, Colonel Pillenger, by marrying Lucy Pillenger, his daughter. Lusy upsets this arrangement by a runaway marriage with a young curate, and the captain hurries off to find...
...longer will it be necessary for admirers of this eminent painter's queer, gnarled and gnomish trees and ladies in old-fashioned caps and flounces, to seek his work in the Luxembourg Museum in Paris, the Tate Gallery (London), the Municipal Collections of Vienna and Barcelona. They may be found wherever soap is likely to be sold or advertised...
Herbert Ward was a wanderer in the heart of the Congo jungles. As he went, he collected things-anything that reflected the life and thought of primitive races. There were queer barbaric ornaments; shining, murderous weapons; primitive carvings. Also, he saw strange sights, saw battle and death, saw human beings stripped to aboriginal essentials of life and passion. For his own amusement, he liked to take a stub of pencil and stray sheet of paper and sketch roughly the things that interested...
Since that time the latter has experienced queer life...
...been paid ever since. The Company's statement attributed the dividend action to "the severe depression in the textile industry"; American Woolen itself is probably experiencing the most trying period since its formation over 25 years ago. The day before the dividend was passed, the stock "acted queer" in the market, declining noticeably on heavy selling. Either the insiders were "getting out," or else astute traders were "getting short" of considerable stock. Next day, when the news came out, the stock collapsed about 14 points; the rest of the week it continued to drop. For many months, American Woolen...