Word: weirdly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lesbian, too neurotically selfish for anything but a perverted counterfeit of love. But to the innocent eyes of Hélene, Tamara's brusque, boyish charm, her low voice "rough as a cat's tongue," her disordered flat, a jungle den of cigarette smoke and weird African masks, has all the magnetic pull of an adolescent daydream come true...
...usually described as "tempestuous" and include a self-educated noble farmer, two pairs of moody brothers, and a monster. They are all interesting people, probably drawn from life, but one gets the feeling that in his drawings Mr. Steinbeck has exaggerated some lines until the characters themselves have become weird and unbelieveable...
...instant the convention held its silence. Each man suddenly leaned out. Something weird had happened in the Yard--which was their present world. Then from somewhere, from some window, Eaton knew not which, and it never will be known, there issued a second echo of Kent's lamentive strain. . . Then a third. . . . Next a chorus. . . . You know the rest in the talk you have heard. The chant has reverberated through the decades. At the time of the Harvard Tercentenary, in 1936, the headlines read "Rinehart Himself in Town...
Farouk's master bedroom was cold, ugly and boxlike, like a room in a cheap summer resort hotel. It was heaped high with a weird mixture of pornography, childishness and sentimentality-mild glamour shots like those advertising Chicago burlesque bars; Kodachrome nudes complete with pocket viewers; trick photographs that could be squeezed to make a fan dancer bump and grind There were also pictures of Queen Narriman as a bride. Near the royal stood two stacks of well-thumbed U.S. comics...
Then the Guild brought the weird charge that the dismissals violated its contract with the News because no "sufficient cause" was given for dismissal. It also cited a state labor clause forbidding dismissal for "political beliefs." Arbitrator Paul A. Dodd, dean of Letters and Science at U.C.L.A., ruled that nobody had proved Partlow or Smith a Communist, and that anyway, that was not the issue. Dodd got to the heart of the matter: "A newspaper has. . . a quasi-public responsibility . . . In view of our nation's struggle today against the forces of Communism throughout the world, all those...