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Word: queerness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...more sober but exquisite hen. These two, Frank and Nina, and all their numerous progeny for many years, Sophocles trained to the hand. Each knew its name, and would run from the flock when its white-haired keeper called, and, sitting upon his hand or shoulder, would show queer signs of affection, not hesitating even to crow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Idiosyncracies of Professor Sophocles, Famous Harvard Scholar, of Last Century Narrated by Professor Palmer | 5/14/1929 | See Source »

...course, one gets to think of these reformer people as queer long-haired strangers who care neither for the best or the nice things in life. But the Boston dinner party of the other evening proved that they too can become gorged with hilarity and paint the town as red as the rest of their less significant brethren...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR GANG | 4/18/1929 | See Source »

...write about a mystic without making him seem too queer is a distinguished accomplishment. Author Williamson's mystic cuts strident across a maze of conventionalities, but he is never cheap, affected, sentimentalized. His theories may well antagonize, but his understanding of animals, his intuition regarding fellow humans, are faultless, impressive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: ANIMALS & FELLOW HUMANS | 4/15/1929 | See Source »

...queer quirk in the whole situation was that Japan, which for months has stubbornly kept an interventionary force in Shantung, disregarding incessant Nationalist howls of protest, suddenly came to terms last week with the shaky and harassed Nationalist Government and entered into a signed agreement to withdraw her slit-eyed marines by June 1. It is common knowledge that Japan has financed and favored Marshal Chang, the captor of Chefoo, but it would be news indeed if the Imperial Government con- siders Chang already strong enough to see that Japanese interests and colonists in Shantung come to no harm during...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: March Counter March | 4/8/1929 | See Source »

...betting on the election." Certainly the thing is done in London with a flair and a nice decorum equaled nowhere else on earth. Indeed most U. S. citizens would find themselves flabbergasted if asked to devise the machinery for placing bets on an election which has so many queer features (General Parliamentary Election, TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: How Much for Lloyd George? | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

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