Word: queerness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Samuel S. Drury is rector of the largest U. S. church school, St. Paul's (Episcopal), at Concord, N. H. His subject is "Religious Influence." He frankly "talks religion," insisting that religion is not "queer" or "forced" as a part of a boy's education. He believes that schools have made a god of morality and been afraid of theology. He believes that boys are natural mystics, that the second decade is in all directions a romance. "Some colleges," he says, "will not grant a degree unless the senior can swim 100 yards; the school might make one condition...
...that I attempted to bribe the police officer who unwarrantably arrested me . . . I am writing a book dealing with vice conditions in the West End, and had gone to Hyde Park to gather data at first hand. I call the Court's attention to the fact that my works, Queer People and Diversions of a Prime Minister, are well known. . . As I entered the park I was accosted by a young woman, and we sat down upon two chairs placed under a tree at some distance from the public walk. . . I engaged her in conversation, and later, when she said...
...heart worried lest they drown. Heavily be pondered and then, with sudden decision, uttered an official "Ja". It may be that no skater ventured until the next day. At any rate, not until that time were the Mayor's fears substantiated. While then, instead of a splash, came a queer thud for the Mayor had drained the pond...
That is his way of going about matters. But he is a queer sort of politician anyhow, this James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. from Geneseo, N. Y. In the first place he comes from a family of Cincinnati? farmer-soldiers. His family has been buying farm land ever since 1790. A few years ago they owned 35,000 acres in Livingstone County, N. Y. His grandfather, once an unsuccessful candidate for Governor of New York, was killed in the battle of the Wilderness. His father went into the Army at 18 and fought through the last year of the Civil...
...their blowsy women cook goulash and whip children in the houses where 40 years ago candles shone in crystal girandoles, and violins complained all night. A newspaper writer recently referred to Brooklyn as the "City of a Thousand Freaks," and many of the throwbacks who still live there are queer sticks indeed. You see them scurrying along the sidewalk on obscure errands, babbling cheerfully to themselves some as wear Dundreary whisker; some the plaid breeches of a fine de-siecle "sport," and many of them, particularly on sunny days carry umbrellas...