Word: overheard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Robert E. Lee joke is in bad taste. The Old Grad has always been, and is, too much for this reviewer to wade through, and the Conversations Overheard at a Department Store Art Exhibit can hardly be appreciated unless one has been to the Jordan Marsh jamboree. Oh, by the way! Most of the critical dicta in these conversations might well be applied to the Lampoon itself, depending on one's prejudices...
...from Flagg and Fern, her healthy twins. The picture of dancing satyrs, the little statue of Venus, the table wine, the Sunday rotogravures-one by one they mysteriously disappeared. Life began to be a queer, suspicious business. Fern was shipped away to school-she would not come back. Flagg overheard his parents quarreling viciously-he ran away. But Rex was pushed at last into young manhood...
...these three crowded her mind, always she was held apart from them by the high wall between the bright gardens. They have for her at first the unreality, the incongruity, the strange definiteness of the people in her dreams and thoughts; they are close and unapproachable like strange voices overheard in a forest. Then the strangeness but not the glamor fades; she is bored by friendly, clumsy Martin; pities shy, remote, hedonistic Julian; loves Roddy, who is suave and erratic, quiet and incalculable. After that summer of reacquaintance she goes away to Cambridge...
...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...