Word: overheard
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...Cabot still treasures as a great compliment a remark he overheard in the gas fields: "Hell, Mr. Cabot's as common as anyone...
That copper-colored aborigine was pretty emphatic about being called Chief Wolf Tooth when he was introduced to Mayor LaGuardia as "Mr. Hawks." I overheard it because I was sitting just behind the two, where, incidentally, I shamelessly eavesdropped their entire conversation. Wolf Tooth explained that he had graduated from Carlisle in 1879 and that he had visited Mayor LaGuardia's city "long time ago." He still remembered the State of Liberty and he fought in his tribe's last battle against the white men. After hearing all this in perfectly good English, I was somewhat puzzled...
...Rosinante to the Road Again, followed it five years later with one on his travels in the Near East, Orient Express. These random recollections of unconventional journeys were written in a glancing, impressionistic style, with characterizations of fellow travelers blending with offhand comments on politics and tag lines from overheard conversations...
Maybe the boy had overheard his father (and namesake) chaffing me for boasting that I had rowed over twelve thousand miles on the Charles River since the Dam was built. I used to row from that beautiful northeast room of the Newell Boathouse. I'm not as deaf as a post. But I was born in the first half of the 19th century, and we are near the end of the first half of the 20th...
...Cedric Adams' personal concern was relieved when his good friend & tipster, Dr. Russel R. Noice, walked into the Star office, made known he was ready to tell police he had overheard a murder plotted in the cheap League of Nations beer parlor, but that the intended victim was not Corcoran but another labor leader. Soon Alderman A. G. Bastis revealed that not only Patrick Corcoran but four other labor leaders had been marked for death, that Corcoran himself knew he was in danger, that Rumorist Adams had merely printed what had been widely whispered in Twin City labor circles...