"Queer isn't funny anymore."  From the UCLA Daily Bruin, 1974.

"One more queerness in this queer world."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1932.

"Have you ever seen people who looked as queer as these for the same reason?"  From Foundations for Living by Fern Silver & Mildred Graves Ryan, 1943.

"A very queer man and the good he did."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1929.

"Queer wedding."  From Watts Hospital School of Nursing's 1938 yearbook.  See The Collected Lost Meanings of Wedlock.

From Preparatory Book to Accompany We Grow Up by Gates, Huber & Peardon, 1939.

"At home in a tree.  A queer family."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1922.

Five is "the 'queer number.'"  From Lighted Pathway, 1961.

This says that people who promptly answer correspondence are "stunted and queer."  We, too, strive to answer promptly and are unabashedly stunted and queer.  (Not proudly, mind you, for the opposite of "shame" is not "pride" but "shameless.")  From Mince Pie by Christopher Morley, 1919.

Before "gay and tired," there was "queerest and restless."  From The See and Say Series, Book Two by Sarah Louise Arnold, 1914.

From Nasby in Exile by David Ross Locke, 1882.

"When we got close enough to get a good look at him we found he was queerer lookin' than he was actin'."  From Cosmopolitan, 1908.

"Just label it a queer puzzle, and put it away along with all the other queer puzzles."  From Furze the Cruel by John Trevena, 1908.

Here's a precursor to the Doomsday Clock.  "Queer French clocks celebrate world war."  From Popular Mechanics, 1927.

It's like looking in a mirror: "Answering strange questions and supplying queer things quickly is function of unique organization."  From Popular Mechanics, 1927.

Queer bridges are ungrammatical conjunctions, as we learn in Harmsworth Magazine, 1899.