Word: queerly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ring's proofs under their noses, flew into a passion and tore the Nazi insignia off their brown uniforms. S. S. troops with machine guns meanwhile bottled up the S. A. leaders in Chancellor Hitler's trap. Then leaping into a car the Chancellor dashed for queer Captain Roehm's luxurious snuggery...
Alabama is home to 2,700,000 U. S. citizens, but to Carl Carmer, a Yankee who lived there six years, it is also a queer place. Says he: "The Congo is not more different from Massachusetts or Kansas or California." His book, an anecdotal narrative of some of his experiences in Alabama, goes far toward bearing out his thesis. But Alabamians would have to be thin-skinned indeed to object to the tone of Author Carmer's remarks. Though he makes many an explicit criticism, points silently at some grim conclusions, he also tosses many a bouquet, with...
...stories of Hallem's sons, inheritors of his bitter spirit, of his wife, whom he alternately loved and hated, of Roiter's wife and children, many another minor but well-indicated character. Well and truly translated,- Duel does not read like a translation, has none of the queer woodenness of a foreign book...
...queer anniversary is the celebration every year by King Carol II and Crown Prince Mihai of the day when Playboy Carol, having flown home from philandering in Paris, snatched the Crown from fat, phlegmatic Boy King Mihai's head. Never seeming to mind his demotion to Crown Prince, 12-year-old Mihai stood with his father last week to receive the Fourth Anniversary homage offered by Rumanian mayors. Cried Carol, who now likes to strut the Dictator, echo Mussolini: "My slogan is work! Only through good work for the welfare of your country can you demonstrate your loyalty...
...besides his $45,000 Guarnerius, a $5 quarter-size violin on which he, aged 3, had learned to play. He had been in Russia for the first time since 1917 when he fled with his parents and sisters from their one-room home during the Revolution. The Russians had queer ideas of their countryman who was coming back to play for them. He would arrive with two Ethiopian bodyguards. His violin would be in a bright silver case. His wife would be either a Miss Ford or a Miss Rockefeller instead of Cinemactress Florence Vidor. Even so, there were Russians...