Word: weirdly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Weird...
...strange craft that would not seem out of place among the weird illustrations of Popular Science Monthly." From TIME...
...Weird, TIME? We? "Strange, wild, or unearthly" my Webster's defines the word. If this is your understanding also, you must have us mixed up with a couple of other fellows...
...weird," weird, too, must be our leading manufacturers, the laboratories of our great industries, the research staffs of our universities, the various institutions and foundations endowed for the advancement of science, our Patent Office, the U. S. Bureau of Standards, the Coast and Geodetic Survey, and the other divisions of our Government that are engaged in scientific or engineering work, for they are the principal sources to which we look for material, both text and pictures...
...then Van Phillips' saucy, syncopated fugue called Thank You, Mr. Bach and a harp solo of the St. Louis Blues by World's Hottest Harpist Casper Reardon. Biggest hit of the day was All Points West by Rodgers & Hart. Here, against a tragic throbbing of strings and weird wind effects, Baritone Raymond Middleton Jr. called trains, recited the cynical, sentimental, sniggering thoughts of a train announcer, was unexpectedly shot by a stray bullet...