Word: queerly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...decided to take old Tawaska's advice, go off in her own company and have a look at herself. Caroline may not be Authoress Borden's mouthpiece, but Caroline has a low opinion of men, and her experience would seem to justify it. Only the queer (and apparently celibate) Tawaska has her admiration. However emotional her judgments, she is introspective, and gains sympathetic agreement when she considers herself an awful fool. You may be annoyed at her careless morality, but the passionate way she went at things will make you admit she had more than her share...
...vallant and exceptional students "ever dared rise to such dizzy heights" as the study of differential and integral calculus, but that today the calculus is merely the starting point in college mathematics. The march of modern science has erased from the mathematical specialist the stain of being "queer...
...fourth opera (Der Fliegende Holländer}, the first intimation of the power he was to set forth in Tristan and Die Götterddämmerung. Wagner had the Dutchman cast ashore with a Norwegian captain called Daland. Daland had a daughter, Senta, whose fancy had been taken by the queer stories about the Dutchman. She offered him the love which would save him but he doubted her and she threw herself into the sea. Whereupon the phantom ship went down and the Dutchman too found the death he had so long sought...
...seem queer now, but in the old days men fought on horseback. James Ewell Brown ("Jeb") Stuart was one of the best of them. When the Civil War began he was 27, a regular U. S. cavalry officer, six years out of West Point. When a Yankee trooper's bullet brought him down at Yellow Tavern he was the 31-year-old Major-General commanding the cavalry and horse artillery of Lee's Army of Northern Virginia. Captain Thomason, a soldier who likes his trade, a Southerner (from Texas) whose ancestors fought the Yankees, is a good...
...likes him as a brother, as a reminder of the strange happy days when the family was together. But Sebastian is too much the turbulent, nose-thumbing Sanger for intimate comradeship. And Caryl, so far as Sebastian is concerned, is little more than the fool of the family, a queer fellow simply because he is quite without eccentricity or individuality of any sort. When they meet, things usually happen to the advantage of Sebastian, whether he especially wants them...