Word: overdo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Right is Reader Freret; Cha is the word for tea. The honorific "O" (used in talking but not in writing) is applied to almost everything in "good society," but seemly Japanese learn not to overdo it to the point of comedy...
...cream (strawberry, chocolate); dipped tiny mugs of sweet, nonalcoholic punch. In redlined blue capes moved Red Cross nurses; the Red Cross ladies fussed with plates and spoons. Near, but tactfully hidden, waited a khaki colored Army ambulance. Men with 22-year-old wounds must not be overexcited, must not overdo-Trailed by uniformed aides strode Eleanor Roosevelt, summery in a long, pale blue dress, a white hat, to meet her guests...