Word: queerness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Some of the Times's friends realized with sympathy that its queer deer story was only a shade more embarrassing than a story which the Times printed in September. Receiving a flash from Buenos Aires that the bovine championship of the Argentine had been, won by an animal named Esther Bletchley Challenge, the Times sonorously reported...
...reporters playing bridge in the office late at night comes Chief of Detectives Crewe, looking for his old friend Sands, a better detective than reporter. There has been a murder, and a queer one. The dead man sits at his dining room table, lashed to his chair; breakfast has been laid for four, but nobody has touched it; everywhere is the thick stink of nicotine. The setting is melodramatic, but the action is confused, realistic: the policemen, the loudmouthed, lowbrowed coroner, the witnesses at the inquest, are photographically true to type. The satire on things political, policial, is at times...
...queer thing is the fact that when a man with hypertrophied prostate dies, the swelling speedily disappears. Postmorticians cannot get the gland enlarged (for laboratory work) from cadavers...
...News. For two years he had been War correspondent on the British front for the Chicago Daily News. He liked the life: he liked the excitement of beating a deadline, of turning in a good story in half the requisite amount of time; he liked meeting famed people, going queer places. Then, one day two months ago, he quit...
Most Serbians and many Slovenes write a queer, quaint alphabet, the Cyrillic. Himself a Serb, King Alexander knows that it is hard to change over to the Latin alphabet used by U. S. citizens and all his Croatian subjects. But just now His Majesty is launched on a passionate campaign of national unification (TIME, Oct. 14). Therefore he announced last week that he would shortly suppress Cyrillic by royal and dictatorial decree...