Word: overwrought
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three-quarters of the audience jumped to its feet, bellowed approval. When the noise subsided Governor Sterling lumbered up to address the overwrought crowd...
Biographer Washburn hazards no opinion about Lydia Pinkham's belief in her own invention, thinks her opportunism may have been socially useful. "The overwrought key of the advertising, its appeal to beware of vague symptoms, such as the blues and dissatisfaction with life, and the hysterical note of the testimonials, suggest that the Vegetable Compound cured that additional weakness that was largely psychic. Who is to say it may not have done this job as well as psychoanalysis...
Lightning rod of the modern press is the news-camera man. Most persons who are subjected to unwelcome publicity see the wisdom of treating reporters civilly. But let a camera click and click goes something in the overwrought subject's brain. If anyone is going to get hit it is the camera man. During the past fortnight, press lightning rods had the following experiences...