Word: queerly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that won the eighth Harper Prize Novel competition ($7,500), seemed likely to impress readers as the most unusual selection thus far.* The work of Frederic Prokosch, 28-year-old author of The Asiatics (1935) and The Assassins (1936), The Seven Who Fled is distinguished by its sensuous imagery, queer plot and elusive symbolism, as well as by a tantalizing, ambiguous philosophical message which will leave most readers wondering if they have got Author Prokosch's meaning straight...
...Brussels, a big Douglas transport of the Royal Dutch Air Lines (KLM) took off on a morning run from Amsterdam to Paris. Some witnesses thought the motors sounded queer. On board were a crew of three and twelve passengers, including Benjamin F. Mun of Long Beach, Calif., president of Humber Oil Co. Near the village of Lembecq-lez-Hal the airliner bored into a mass of dark cloud, was seen few minutes later pitching steeply to earth with flame enveloping the left wing. The plane struck so hard that the motors and half the fuselage disappeared into the ground...
Alan Corby is the closely-guarded pseudonym of a famed U. S. adventure writer. Whether he took an alias because he was afraid Deep Soundings would queer him with his usual Boy Scout audience, or because he wanted it to make its own way as a serious literary work, is hard to say. On the literary side the book is a straight throwback to Kipling and Jack London- a story involving the hazards of convoying merchant ships during the War, with a hero who, through duty and red-hot blood rather than patriotism, faces death as manfully as love. Added...
Anyone seeing a well-dressed lady step out of her limousine to feed biscuits to four dogs playing in a vacant lot, might think she was a queer old busybody but a kindly one. If the four dogs all fell sick that evening, three of them fatally, the witness might well recall the old lady and tell the police, but still not doubt her kindness. If the old lady, in police court, explained that she was a great friend of animals, a contributor to humane societies, habitually solicitous of waifs and strays, she might be considered an unfortunate victim...
...fools' world sane men will have a bad time anyhow; but they can help wind up the world of fools even if they cannot hope to see it out." Suggested methods of winding it up: sabotage, political assassinations. But when one of his characters says: "The queer thing is that, when this lunatic comes to you and starts this idea in your head, you don't say Pish or Tush and just turn it down; you begin to have a vague sense that somehow you have felt something-you hardly know what," he expresses what the sympathetic reader...