Word: queered
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...past his prime, was warned by Jack Dempsey last week to quit the ring. Said Dempsey: "Louis is a lot farther over the hill than I was when I hung up the gloves in 1927. He ought to quit before he gets hurt and finds a permanent address on Queer Street...
...Yellow Book was a queer literary blossom of the not-so-Naughty Nineties. Stuffy contemporaries thought it a stinkweed, but today it seems more like a pressed rose-flat and sere. A British quarterly launched by Critic Henry Harland and Draftsman Aubrey Beardsley, it ran from 1894 to 1897, published the trial flights of half a dozen future soarers...
...finer connection. All the leading shrines are on my book. They know I handle the right stuff. Buy it myself in Arabls, ship it myself. Besides, they all like dealing with me because I'm reverent, see. Whatever it is they worship--monkeys, snakes; I've seen some pretty queer goings-on in Phrygia, I can tell you--I always respect religion. It's my bread and butter...
Cozens' new method was a queer one, and never saw general use. As a contemporary described it, the artist "dashed out upon several pieces of paper a series of accidental smudges and blots in black, brown and grey, which, being floated on, he impressed again on another paper and . . . converted into romantic rocks, woods, towers, steeples, cottages, rivers, fields and waterfalls...
...Canadian credits. Scandinavian suppliers, quick to take advantage of the shortage created by the Canadian embargo, had boosted prices to Britain in 10 months from ?30 to ?35 a ton. Higher prices alone, warned the Sunday Express' Editor John Gordon, would put "many newspapers in 'Queer Street,' " and probably force a number of marginal provincial papers out of business...