Word: overdo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...progress made by the construction industry in continuing its building program with stabilized wages and a downward tendency in material prices. After the general abandonment of new building this spring (TIME, May 28), when construction costs were rapidly mounting, the labor situation became easier. Now, instead of attempting to overdo production, the industry is apparently entering a period of steadier and less expensive even if slower construction. An analysis of the country's building requirements shows that the present demand for buildings-a survival of the long war period of inadequate construction-would warrant for the next ten years...
However, compulsory athletics, even as applied only to Freshmen, has magnified unwittingly one tendency, the tendency to overdo. It may be difficult to get a man to eat his first olive, but once his, taste is excited, it is as equally difficult to make him eat them in moderation. Only this fall one college has been forced to declare thirteen Freshmen and three upperclassmen ineligible for its football team, largely because of studies. It is still possible to take a leaf from Thomas Fuller's philosophy of three hundred years ago, and be wary of "wearing nothing but fringes...
...least forced or conventional; the absence of a "star" has led Mr. Marcin to put several of the parts into the hands of capable farceux. Mr. Hawley's "Jerry Hammond" bordered on the stereotyped, but Jack Raffael, as a slightly inebriated bank director, was very careful not to overdo his part. Miss Risdon, in the role of "Mrs Knowles" gave some fine examples of emotional acting, which unfortunately were set in too mirthful surroundings to be taken at their full value. For the play is after all a farce, and as such worth being seen and enjoyed...
...comedy has a real plot, which is unusual in plays of this character, and the semi-historical background adds a touch of reality. There is a strong tendency in modern romantic plays to overdo the sentimental element, but Arthur Richman has overcome this by introducing a spicy antidote of humor at any point where the romantic is a little too saccharine...