Word: queerly
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...queer kind of man hunt. The posse was made up of eminent historians, led by the Archivist of the U.S., Solon J. Buck. The man they were after was an obscure carpenter from Topeka, but he was regarded by some of them as the greatest historical forger in the U.S. To track him down, they employed lapidaries, metallurgists, and ink and paper experts...
...picture strikes one very queer note: its infatuation with breadwinning as the real measure of stability and wholesome family life. When Scott gets good & sore at his wife, he just can't give a hoot for moneymaking, and that neglect is represented as close to the ultimate catastrophe. But he recovers. Within a few hours after she has killed a man in her parlor, and is still suffering from shock, he leaves her, with her entire approval, for more important matters at The Office...
...postwar years were the Golden Age of German films, and it is of the wild, queer, charming, sometimes great, sometimes outrageously arty films of those years that Dr. Kracauer writes most entertainingly...
Miao (wonderful). "Wonderful" painters have no idea what makes them so. Their work is moving but it is apt to look "strange, queer, and have neither reason nor resemblance. This is the result of having brush (pi) but not thought...
...speech or stanza; in waiting for this line to pop out or wondering how that character will stand up. Compared to Alice on the stage, even Hamlet becomes an uncharted wilderness. But much of the fun lies in what is permanently funny-or what is gay, or outrageous, or queer...