Word: wierd
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gourds and shrill clay pipes. Excitement ran high in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall last week when Composer Chavez faced the New York Philharmonic for the first time and led it through two of his works never played there before : a suite from his ballet H. P. and his wierd, strident Symphony of Antigone...
Dartmoor itself does not yield the influences which are calculated to soften and better mankind. In the immediate vicinity there is no house, no civilization apparent, to make the convicts remember that they are human. There is a wierd quiet that hangs over the place which is augmented only by the wierder call of the Tern. This is not an environment which lends itself to character building. The prison is of ancient design with all the discomfort and severity of the early Victorian period. Nothing is done to ease the burden of the penal existence...