Word: queerly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...elected them. We know they're not angels or geniuses, but we'd feel kind of funny if they were-like impostors. Maybe they're not as smart as their detractors, or as good, or as nearly right. But those same detractors have some awfully queer ideas, and the Congressmen have our ideas. As long as our representatives have a little power, we count on them to save us from, those queer ideas...
...extreme end of the box is a little man with a hook nose, sunken cheeks, deep sunken eyes. He is French and he wears a string of medals. He looks like an Egyptian mummy, except for the queer glitter in his colorless eyes. Another French officer is fat. His eyebrows slant upward. His normal complexion is purple-red-that of a man bursting with rage...
...Robertson Ward, head of the House of Ibis, presided at the ceremony, held during the course of a conference purportedly called for the purpose of plotting the recapture of Leros, lost recently by the British. Just what the hell anyone wants with an island populated by queer women was not explained...
...years ago the Robesons moved into a big colonial house with a swimming pool and tennis court at Enfield, Conn. (Cracked their repairman: "He'll have to sing a lot of songs to heat this place.") Once dubbed a lazy man by his wife, Robeson embodies a queer definition of laziness. Besides acting, cinemacting (Song of Freedom, King Solomon's Mines, Show Boat), carrying Water Boy to the ends of the earth, broadcasting and making hundreds of gramophone recordings, Robeson has been working on a vast treatise about African culture, has tackled an invention for improving acoustics...
There was a Dutch cap made of a kitchen towel, trimmed with four napkin rings, a cookie cutter and a tea strainer. There was a tricorn glittering with plastic cutlery, grapefruit knives and ice tongs, and a hat of a sponge pierced with iced-tea spoons. The queer fact about these hats was that they were all becoming. Ben says: "The sale is made in the mirror...