Word: overheards
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...that if his life were spared she would read the Bible from cover to cover. Her father recovered; Selma struggled on and one day her uncle discovered her poring over the Book of Revelation under a gooseberry bush. Her uncle reported to her parents, and when she overheard them making light of her simple-mindedness she left the last few pages forever unread. Selma's governess broke the news to her gently that she was an unremarkable child, but Selma's hopes of some day becoming a writer were not dashed. She said to herself: "Perhaps...
...third day of fasting he overheard a woman from the U. S. remark to her companion: ''He ought to starve...
...reporter was reconverted to Christian hope. Leaving the theatre, he overheard Miss Ida May Sparrow, who plays the leading feminine role. She complained to the manager concerning the imperfect acoustics of the stage. (Mr. Dixon, the reporter then recalled, was afflicted at the time with a hoarse throat...
...actually speaking likenesses. To read her story of the post-Civil War U. S. is like being there in a painfully realistic sense. Without depending very much on local color (letters, newspaper paragraphs), Authoress Herbst's story establishes its eyewitness character by almost continuous "indirect discourse," shifting its overheard speakers as the scene shifts but never losing its Nineteenth-Century tone of voice. Pity Is Not Enough is so achingly true to life that some readers may find it too drab for comfort; those who persevere to the end will admit that the title is well-chosen...
...Guardian. Its crime: printing specific cases of the beating of Jews, Socialists, women, the most detailed of which came from the Guardian's special correspondent in Frankfort. The last case so reported was that of a street peddler sentenced to a year's imprisonment because he was overheard to say that Jews were mistreated. The Guardian wrote last week...