Word: queerly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...news that Hollywood has decided to cinematise a fine book usually causes one to have that queer feeling in the liver usually only associated with love...
Author Boyle, neoRomantic, writes of queer people, queer doings. My Next Bride, her latest, treats of a universal disease that is peculiarly virulent in the U. S.; expatriatitis. None of Author Boyle's characters is quite normal but they all have a normal, mortal longing to go home. Those who are not physically prevented find other barriers in their way. Heroine of her tale is a young girl, Victoria, who has cast off her family and country to find "something" abroad. In Paris, nearly on her uppers, she is befriended by two Russian spinster sisters, who introduce...
Said the Pittsburgh Press's Douglas Naylor of the No. 1 prizewinner: "Like some others, this reviewer smiled at first sight of South of Scranton. It seems reasonable to conclude that the cannon atop the queer turret is symbolic of capitalism." William Germain Dooley of the Boston Evening Transcript: "All very childlike and charming and deliberately naïve-but also completely counterfeit and insincere...
...youngest and always the most grown-up of the lot, is his parents' standby. When he brings a queer, sullen Russian girl home, announces that she is his wife, the folks never get over it. But Bun knows what he is doing, even though his marriage may lead him into strange and dangerous ways. With his defection the folks realize they are now the old folks. Fred retires from the bank, and he and Annie drive out to California for a long visit. What they see there confuses and repels them; they are glad to get home again, even...
...half with the Burushu people in the mountainous north corner of India and round out an exhaustive study of their language, customs, origin. Unruly, boisterous, athletic, the 17,600 Burushu are not much like their lackadaisical neighbors of India's plains and valleys. They speak a queer, syntactically complex language called Burushaski, with no less than four genders. Lieut.-Colonel Lorimer believes himself the only white man with a working knowledge of Burushaski, knows of no other human tongue to which it is related...