Word: queerly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this queer situation is the Peasant Party, which must step up and vote if the November 6th election is to mean "national unity." Peasant Party henchmen promptly announced that their minimum terms were Government pardon for their leader, famed, rustic Wincenty Witos, who was jailed under the dictatorship of Marshal Pilsudski in 1930, escaped and fled to Czechoslovakia. Warsaw reports failed to reveal whether Marshal Smigly-Rydz is yet ready to have Wincenty Witos pardoned, recalled that Polish reactionaries attempted the assassination of persons who some years ago proposed this pardon...
...That's very funny.You must come from Boston, because you're so queer. Where do you live, anyway...
...family legend that he is descended from the Green People, a species of sea gypsies who live in an underground world called St. Martin's Land. A few days later he meets a tousled, green-eyed boy who gives him an ancient amber cup, tells queer tales, disappears in the sea. As other meetings between them follow, Molly keeps sympathetic pace with Henry's lyric excitement, approves his redecorating his house as a green cave, controls her jealousy of his amphibian kinsman. By this time the reader has guessed that Author Dane is not writing a simple triangle...
...Knoxville, having exhibited great delicacy by waiting until the primary was over, the Congressional committee investigating TVA announced it would review the queer-looking claim suit lost by Senator Berry against TVA for an alleged fortune in marble drowned under the waters of Norris Dam. During his campaign, rich Senator Berry had continued to protest his claims were valid, not chiseling. Cried he: "I was in the marble business long before there was a TVA or a President Franklin Delano Roosevelt...
...Night wandering diminishes when Author Boyle endows Wilt with an intuition, inspired by drink and his own fantasies, that enables him to solve in one night a fraud which takes seven years for the law courts to see through. Modest readers, unable to figure out Kay Boyle's queer people, may be left with an uneasy sense of their own confusion; more confident readers will call the author addled...