Word: overheard
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...When you reach home, you see your family's smiles of greeting, you see their lips move, but the rich experience of hearing the tone and rhythm of their familiar voices is lost. . . . The deaf man . . . misses the snatches of talk normally overheard as we ride the subway ... the tick of a clock . . . vague echoes of people moving in other rooms in the house . . . [the] incidental noises [which] maintain our feeling of being part of a living world. ... He feels as if the world were dead...
...last week in New York, some of these normally inaudible sounds were accidentally overheard. Cops started punching the wrong people and the people started yelling. The first was a Bronx candy dealer named Samuel Grossman. He complained that a patrolman had jerked him out of his car, accused him of annoying a woman pedestrian, and punched him in the face...
...memory.... I would have taken the whole matter for an unpleasant incident, had I not heard a strange explanation from one of the orchestra's musicians. After the end of the concert, this musician went out on the casino terrace for a drink. At the next table he overheard four men exchanging congratulations on having successfully disturbed the performance by tele-hypnosis. Three of the men handed a 50-florin bill to the fourth...
...want to arouse suspicion by asking, so I had some difficulty in locating his shop. Finally, on the fourth approach, there was Rocchi, working away. Near him was a thin man who I thought from the description I had might be one of the councilors, and then I overheard a conversation which was music to my ears. Said Rocchi: 'I wasn't going to do it for a priest. You should have heard him.' And here he mimicked the priest...
From Cannes on the languorous Riviera came a romantic dispatch from Columnist Elsa Maxwell. She had overheard a conversation between Heiress Barbara Hutton and her new (fourth) husband, Prince Igor Troubetzkoy. Heiress Hutton: "Igor, you are so vague today." Prince Igor: "Naturally, darling, when I am living in a wonderful dream." Crowed happy Columnist Maxwell: "A neat phrase, and he looked as though he meant it." Barbara was going to take Igor to her nest in Tangier, said Miss Maxwell. "Barbara's bathroom looks out on a minaret. Every evening as the muezzin calls the faithful to prayer...