Word: overworks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...primarily students of the theatre and the drama, one may expect more revealing interpretation, more subtlety perhaps, more real art than one finds in the ordinary popular play. And since the Guild is not a stock company, but picks its actors from a large group, it need not overwork a few stars in possibly uncongenial parts, but may by careful selection obtain the best characterization for every role. Its very nature gives it many advantages, all tending to produce finished first-rate performances while its rather Altruistic character engages the attention and interest of everyone who occasionally hungers...
...Premier Baldwin has at once honored the name of Bonar Law and indicted the organization of modern government. That a nation will cherish in special reverence the public servant who has given "the last full measure of devotion" can hardly be held a justification of the over-strain and overwork to which he has been subjected. Even those who were most hitter against the theories of President Wilson condemned a system which produced the tragic figure of an executive broken by the terrific strain of his office. And the death of President Harding served to confirm a suspicion that...
Bernard Anthony Gilfoy '26, of Adams died early Thursday morning at the Stillman Infirmary of typhold fever. Physical exhaustion from overwork is believed to have contributed to Gilfoy's death...
Rene Viviani, former Premier of France, fainted in court from overwork...
...then was. In 15 years, by his mastery of diatribe and skill in the strategy of legislative wrangling, he had made himself Democratic floor leader in the House. In four years more?four strenuous years of war time activity?he had brought on himself a stroke of paralysis from overwork. For three years he had clung to his seat in Congress and continued to hold, for all his ill health, at least the nominal leadership of the House Democrats. Now he is dead...