Word: overheards
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...overheard Robert say to a little playmate that he was going to do "what the smart man did in TIME when he wanted money...
...course, since I overheard Robert, I was able to take the paper away from him and explain that a gentleman or an honest person of any sort would not do such a thing: I am sure that Robert understands, but I cannot help feeling that much harm may have been done to other children...
Queen Marie of Rumania telephoned in some agitation last week to her daughter Queen Marie of Jugoslavia. King Ferdinand of Rumania, phoned Queen Marie to Queen Marie, had suffered a relapse in his long, chronic illness (TIME, Nov. 29 et seq.). Soon a telephone operator who overheard the royal conversation started a rumor which grew and gathered, gravity until correspondents in Berlin asserted "on the highest authority" that King Ferdinand was dead...
While I am quite aware that a college education should do more for a man than make him a good dinner companion, I have been curious about the matter ever since I overheard a famous hostess proclaim, "Whenever I want to brighten up a dinner, I look around for a Harvard...
Returned home, No. 10 Downing Street, London, Mrs. Baldwin was overheard by a newsgatherer to say to her daughter Betty, as she entered the door: "It was terrible! Terrible! But your father said to me at the time: 'Don't worry, we must expect little rubs like this once in a while...