Word: queerly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that in which Mae shows her presents to a friend; you will see what I mean when you hear her say, "It's real jade ... he said," in a tone of trusting naivete which touches the heights. On the other hand, the scenes which attempt to portray some queer form of true love, suddenly burgeoning in the largest of American bosoms, are not so rosy; perhaps they are too much out of character. At any rate, the whole picture is a series of such up and downs and contrasts; as art, it is a flop; as entertainment, it gets there...
...roaming along the bookshelves looking for some ancient tome. As he paced down the gallery a queer little man with a roguish permanent grin came to his side, watching him curiously. Professor Lake was about to ask the stranger if he knew the where-abouts of the needed volume, but before he could say anything the gnomic little man caught him by the arm, and, chuckling a typically library-muted chuckle, pulled him for miles along the gallery. After a long walk in silence they came to a large room, set apart from the rest of the great library, which...
...Queer Colonel Ernst Roehm, affectionate Chief of Staff of the apple-cheeked Nazi Storm Troops, speaking in their defense last week for the first time since he was raised to Cabinet rank, revealed that Germany now has 2,500,000 Storm Troopers, her regular Army being limited...
...middle-of-the-roader, this novel is squarely in the centre of the modern experimental path-a path broad enough to accommodate Ulysses and the books of John Dos Passes, but on which such backtracking behemoths as Anthony Adverse never set hoof. Fated to be overlooked or judged "queer" by the general reader, Yesterday's Burdens will excite the attention of those who are more interested in whither the novel is going than in whence it has come...
...seems that two of the Under-secretaries for Ticket Distribution at the H. A. A., when they finish their day of removing undergraduate dollars for the H.A.A. Buy Now policy, run off to the Somerset and become ticket takers at all the big deb dances. This is undoubtedly queer. We are not quite sure what it signifies, but undoubtedly H.A.A. Books will someday admit Harvard boys to Somerset Dances; stadium ushers and Brattle Hall ushers will be an overlapping directorate; season tickets will insure you the best of the Boston Season; and the Vincent and Varsity Clubs will engage...