Word: overwrought
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...instead, is about to depart when her meddlesome landlady learns about the murder trial publishes the story in the village newspaper. Simultaneously, the landlady's little boy becomes seriously ill. When she yanks out the tube Dr. Jones has inserted in his throat, the boy dies. The overwrought town then launches a party to lynch both Dr. Jones and Miss Stevens. With masterful courtroom technique, Lawyer Abbott saves the day. A minor investigation of the same mob violence which made Fury one of last year's outstanding pictures, Outcast fails to achieve equal merit because...
...Peppered peppery Undersecretary for Air Sir Philip Sassoon and overwrought Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden with demands that something be done about Germany's insolence in sending the Hindenburg flying over strategic British areas and about Adolf Hitler's neglect to answer Mr. Eden's questions about the intentions of Nazidom in Europe (TIME, May 18). Presently the handsome young Foreign Secretary's doctor packed him off to the country for a "complete rest," and pretty Mrs. Eden explained that her poor "Tony" has been working 16 hours-per-day. His previous letdown (TIME, April...
...Sophie Crempa's corpse was lifted in its coffin through a window, lowered to the yard for the crowd's inspection. John Crempa, wounded in hand and leg by deputies' bullets, was carried out on the porch in the arms of a husky friend. The thin, overwrought widower stopped crying long enough to lift his bandaged left hand, quaver: "My friends, I want to thank you for the sympathy you have shown for us and for all you have done for us. I hope the blood which my wife shed will do something to help human rights...
...might be," said overwrought Nat Patton, "that I used some money out of my own pocket." Over the week-end he recalled ownership of $886 in lien notes and Texas State warrants which, added to $1,100 in mileage and cash on hand," brought his total funds for the period...
...only daughter on her 3,000-acre estate at Old Westbury, L. I. while his widow occupied herself in smart European resorts. Last September, settled in a house in Manhattan, Mrs. Vanderbilt had little Gloria brought in from the country for a visit. The child became so overwrought at separation from Mrs. Whitney that her nurse whisked her back to her aunt. Thereupon, with a disregard of privacy which shocked her in-laws, Mrs. Reginald Vanderbilt practically charged her sister-in-law with kidnapping and instituted habeas corpus proceedings to obtain possession of her daughter (TIME...