Word: overworks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Architect Warren scoffed at the idea of Clémenceau as an enfeebled old man: "The newspapers are always trying to write obituaries of really great men before their deaths. Who has not heard rumors that Mussolini is a pale spectre of himself, burnt out by overwork? I visited him three weeks ago in Rome, and found him not at all the feeble man tottering into the grave that I had been led to expect. . . . He looks fit, mentally and physically...
...little red cottages by a bleak northern lake and coughed into their handkerchiefs. Then, almost well again, and mocked by the irony of the disease that increases a man's keenness for living while depriving him of life, he bought a part interest in the Boston Braves. Overwork weakened him; he caught a cold; returned to his lake...
...disease germ eaters) takes place after prolonged fatigue; whereas the current clinical supposition had it that the increase was to be noted only on the approach of enemy disease germs. This discovery, if it be such, may lead doctors to refer occasional early diagnoses of incipient disease to mere overwork. The second "discovery" made during the tests is that the sugar contents of the blood under fatigue remains constant-an observation perhaps of some importance in studying cases of diabetes...
...these three lives that he successively led he sacrificed his health and strength by the most extraordinary exertions. Like LaFollette, he became a victim of overwork. He was nevertheless the greatest moral force...
...Most men get their relaxation in cards. That makes them keep late hours in a room with bad air; and they drink too many cocktails. So the public says they have been killed by overwork; and they are lauded as martyrs to their activity...