Word: queerly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Queer World...
Lawrence and his worshiping women is a thoroughly exploited subject; Lawrence and his worshipful cow is a new one. The cow, Susan, browsed in the backyard at Taos, N. M., and was regarded by Lawrence with genuine devotion. "The queer cowy mystery of her," he wrote, "is her changeless cowy desirableness." William York Tindall, a 36-year-old professor with a razor wit, has read everything that Lawrence wrote, everything (so far as possible) that he read, and everything written about him, simply to trace the path that led Lawrence to this love. The result falls into that class...
...touch from James Oliver Curwood when Pete kills a farmer in hand-to-hand fight. The story then swings quickly to mild Faulkner ; Tom loses Pete but finds Lucy, a wild little girl who runs away with him because "dad's got so he's queer with...
Boxer Lou Nova, who spent three years at the California College of Agriculture, is a serious sort, reads books, diets, sleeps long, goes for some queer fangles in fighting. For the Baer fight, for example, he trained at the yoga roost of Dr. Pierre Bernard, the Omnipotent Oom of the Sunday supplements. Half an hour before the fight his handlers came into his dressing room, found him standing on his head-relaxing, he said. Thus relaxed, he handed Max quite a pasting. But Tony Galento, the Orange, N. J., barman, is most relaxed with a bung-starter in his hairy...
...contraption as outlandish as "Bushnell's Turtle," a fat monoplane that was mostly wing. To their surprise the "Batwing" not only established a new construction principle (internally braced wings), but became the first U. S. commercial monoplane. Thenceforth Inventor Stout, unlike his frustrated ancestor, found backers for other queer-sounding projects...