Word: overheard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Electricity and Communication Building: lucky-number long-distance calls overheard by 125 listeners-in (as at the New York World's Fair...
Joyce is constantly jotting down overheard phrases, is especially interested in dialects, Midwestern American, British colonial, newspaper jargon. He speaks Italian as smoothly as English, flawless French, fluent German, knows some dozen other tongues, including outlandish Lapp. At present Joyce is not writing. His wife is trying to get him started on something, because when he is not working he is hard to live with...
...blame it all on Adolf Hitler," said Chaperau. The Führer's connection was via one Rosa Weber, until lately a maid in the Lauer household. According to Albert Chaperau, she overheard much anti-Nazi conversation while she was serving Mr. and Mrs. Lauer, Chaperau, Publisher William Weintraub of Ken, "a London and Paris financier" named Serge Rubenstein, and three other guests at dinner in October...
...Farley to Hyde Park-first time they had talked since Mr. Roosevelt's excursion into the primary States and Mr. Farley's trip to make peace in States where primaries were over. For one whole afternoon they rode around the Presidential estate, talking without danger of being overheard. Although Mr. Farley was against the Purge early in the summer and was reported still to view Mr. Roosevelt's recently renewed Purge with alarm, when they came back from the ride it was understood that their differences were reconciled. It was soon afterward announced that Mr. Roosevelt would...
...News related that one old woman was overheard telling another on a Leeds bus, "Well, Mrs. 'iggins, they can say what they like, but I shall always call it 'arewood with the haccent on the haitch." The correct pronunciation, declared the sons of Lord Harewood, is "Harwood...