Word: queerly
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...problem is to prevent off-camera the occurrence of what he is trying to re-create on film. The boys who live in an old pineapple-processing factory they call Fliesville, have already formed their own film production company-with a Brownie camera-to do a mystery called Something Queer in the Warehouse. They also have their own newspaper, called War, in which they report such Fliesville events as a so-ft.-high rocket shot, after which a lizard walked away from the nose cone intact. Brook may not be as lucky as the lizard...
...Americans really are a queer people, and I'm blessed if I can see any family resemblance between...
Frankfurter persisted, deadpan. How did anybody know what the devices were bought for? "A person might not buy them for use." he mused. "Some people might just want to collect them. People collect all sorts of queer things. Some people collect matchboxes. I know a man who collects sausage containers...
...actress, wanted to play Shaw heroines. Though Shaw was not immune to Molly's shapely figure and "eyes like muscatel grapes," he quickly let her know that his first love was English. He packed her off to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art to drop her "very queer R's" and pick up her elocutionary ABCs. One of his early obiter dictions: "Wot, wich, were, wen. weel, etc. are absolutely incorrect; but the alternatives hwat, hwich, hwere, hwen, and hweel are equally incorrect...
...certainly make a lot of noise. But in the places around the world where peace was being jeopardized, it was the Russians who were making the mischief. The reputation of the U.N. itself was at issue in the Congo, and it was the Russians who were doing most to queer the act. In this tough moment for the U.N., the U.S. rallied to Hammarskjold's side...