Word: excessively
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...search all Aeschylus and Sophocles without finding a better example of hubris than Mr. Hoover's behavior in 1928. [His] . . . was not the wanton violence of the ancient tragic heroes but a smug arrogance. . . . His campaign promises ran to that excess which above all things offended the Greek temperament, which seemed above all things to invite the correcting interposition of Nemesis. . . . Compare him. for example, with Oedipus. Oedipus, like Hoover, thought very well of himself. We first see him when his country is suffering from a severe and unexpected depression. . . . He has appointed Kreon as a fact-finding commission. Kreon...
Barter bonds, pointed out the L. C. C.. would automatically balance trade because excess of sales by one country would immediately cause an accumulation of bonds which could only be liquidated by more purchases from the other country...
Almost everyone has been either the original play which started its run in 1928, or the movie, or read Eden Ferber's book, but seldom has a revival proved as popular as this. Elaborate almost to the point of excess the scenes, the consumes and the choruses are all blended to give the impression of a great spectacle. To call "Show Boat" a musical comedy would be far from conveying a definition, as to call "Green Pasture" a play. It is not puny, like many plays of its type. It combines all the sentiment and carefully unwinding plots...
...When this Democratic measure to substitute lRS bonds for excess gold behind U. S. currency was first put forward. Secretary Mills insisted its scope was purely domestic, denied that its real aim was to meet foreign demands for gold. ?Senator Carter Glass last week contradicted the President, declared that though he had been in the midst of last winter's financial fight, he had heard no Administration spokesman express alarm about the gold standard...
...most diplomatic. Asked "what is your favorite flower?" he adroitly replied. "Flowers of all kind appeal to me." Their daughter, Princess Mary (now the Princess Royal) is known to be devoted to her husband, the spindle-shanked Earl of Harewood. despite a local conviction that he drinks to excess. Most satisfactory of course are the Duke & Duchess of York, except that their two children are girls, Princess ("Baby Betty") Elizabeth and Princess Mary Rose...