Word: excessively
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rome the Dictator's personal physician recalled that Il Duce when performing the sedentary brain work of statecraft keeps to a scant, frugal, almost womanish diet. His sudden excess of appetite, his unwonted he-man meals, are the result of exercise, both muscular and vocal, on his recent whirlwind speechmaking swing around northern Italy (TIME...
...Mellon-controlled Gulf Oil Corp. (world's third largest producers of crude) last week went Paragon Refining Co., refiners and operators of more than 400 filling stations in Michigan and Ohio. In March Paragon announced that it had outlets in excess of production...
Parried Conservative Walker: "It has been reserved for the so-called Modernists to be irritated at any resemblance to anything that has calm, and to adore excess in every direction, to be shapeless, crude, eliminated in detail to nothingness, explosive in detail to chaos . . . creating sensation with the slapstick and the bludgeon. Modernism may change the methods of architecture, but when it does it will necessarily have in it traditions of sound previous methods, with which at present it is in conflict ... at times infantile and often callow. . . . Occasionally it reaches a serious adult stage. Therefore Hope is struggling...
...pacifistic. In 1910, the Kalser of the German Empire told his army in a public address that the time was coming when their duty to their fatherland would demand their facing the armed forces of Europe. No one paid any attention to what seemed only an excess of patriotism. Three years later Europe was in the grip of the World...
...Dallas, Grand Rapids, and Columbus, Ohio, from a Chicago syndicate known as Jacob Kulp & Co. It was charged that the Kulp concern did what amounted to a brokerage business in postal leases, had issued some $150,000.000 in bonds on the strength of these leases, which was vastly in excess of the true value of the properties rented...