Word: overdo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...acting is uniformly good: the temptation to overdo almost never prevails. Frank Wilson as Porgy and Evelyn Ellis as Bess are perhaps outstanding, and the whole cast has sufficient vigor to carry the audience through even the slow first-night scene changing. But that technical matter was a very minor drag on the otherwise complete appeal of the play...
...quaint statement, however, is that this modern hermit avows his belief in the simple life, and thinks that Americans tend to "overdo things." There might be those who overdo the critical faculty to the extent of saying that one day atop a flag-pole is more than enough, and that a week spent in such a location savors in itself of overdoing things. Mr. Kelley, however, that shall be his title until his canonization upon the stage,--does not consider his martyrdom in such a light. He denies any attempt to reap publicity, swearing his simple intention of showing mankind...
...United States up for a bad job and left her to the good graces of that isolation. Being farther apart in fact, the two are closer together in understanding. So these small gestures of the United States are harbingers of better times to come,--if League chauvinists do not overdo them...
...important social and political items. Then a flurry of circumstances had caused him to cease buying newspapers; he had found he got on comfortably without them and his answer to his own question was implied: Not a particle of difference. "Isn't it possible that most of us overdo the newspaper habit?" And Agent Barton adduced the example of President Roosevelt, who freed his mind of "all the pull and tug of the nonessential" by having his secretaries clip and paste up the essence of each day's news...
...Galsworthy depots disagreeable in his plays. He can't let a man leave the theatre in a happy mood. In this respect his tragedies overdo the spirit of repression. Thus, in "The Mod", he develops the disagreeableness of democracy which has overstepped bounds. The foundation of the plot is laid about an incident of Lloyd George's war career. At a political meeting in one of Great Britain's industrial cities, Lloyd George and his policies were resented by an infuriated mob of workmen, and the expresser was forced to leave the building by a rear door in the disguise...