Word: overheard
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...Many a current slang phrase or expression is the creation of a dizzy brain overheard and remembered by a clearer head. The streets of New York between midnight and dawn, when the inebriates come sailing home, are productive fields for the professional wise cracker," answered Mr. Catlett when asked about the source of his humorous sayings...
...demerits of this or that course of study, or of this or that professor. On the contrary such conversation always goes on at our colleges. The only limitation is, that it is seldom very carefully thought out, in the give-and-take of ordinary speech, and is almost never overheard by the professors themselves or by the reigning authorities, who might conceivably receive some benefit from it. This being the case, why should not an undergraduate newspaper seriously endeavor to bring into its columns discussion of the work men come to college for, and which they so freely debate among...
...seemed very poor, and none of them seemed to have any servants following them. The men that he mixed with at the university and at the Inns of Court eyed him strangely. When he spoke to them, which was rarely, they were urbane but aloof, cold, unfriendly. Once he overheard a reference to the color of his skin?his blood boiled. But, he philosophized, there were bad men even in India...
...exceptions. Should The Times ever prove irresponsible, it would, after years of utmost solicitude, utterly disconcert the digestion of a vast Commonwealth. Likewise the editor of The Times. His position is well nigh that of a state official. His most private statement, his most guarded whisper, will, if overheard, be received with attention, credence, close scrutiny. Editors of The Times are therefore tight-lipped gentlemen, seldom heard from outside their own columns. But after they relinquish their duties...
After all, the facts were that Mr. Norris had only made his alleged remarks as an affable means of turning the conversation. But a Southern miss, some 16 years in age, had overheard and promptly popped the alleged kiss upon the unsuspecting Senator...