Word: overdoing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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William E. Hocking, Harvard philosopher, believes that Americans are not grave enough. The Times quotes him as saying: -- "If the Puritans overweighed the, note of gravity, we are at least as prone to overdo the stimulation of nonchalance. And the habit of treating all things as if they were equally light to our abundant powers and emotional buoyancy is apt to leave us emotionally bankrupt in the presence of the objectively deeper passes of experience...
...Stubbsmen, apparently satisfied with the 8-0 whitewashing they gave Princeton Saturday, and seeking not to overdo it with the Yale game coming up, didn't really go at it hammer and longs till the going got rough. And the fans were satisfied to watch them artfully defend the two goal lead until Ken Willis, the Tiger captain, scored when Ash Emerson let a side-shot bounce into the not halfway through the last canto...
...record is only 3 min. 19 sec. He claims that, in his lifetime of water polo, he never gave a "busy signal." He attributes his family's success to a diet prescribed by Mrs. Ruddy, no smoking or drinking by any Ruddy, the fact that the Ruddys never overdo. That N. Y. A. C. water polo teams, since the game was imported by an Englishman named Fred Wells in 1885, have been the best in the U. S. is due largely to Joe Ruddy Sr. But it is also largely his fault that they have not won more championships...
...partner is a man who threatens to replace Victor Moore as the typification of American stupidity. Porter Hall as this unfortunate "Charlie Meredith," is all that any stooge could be, and he adds to his part tremendously by magnificent acting in a role which is an easy one to overdo...
...Chicago, to remind himself & others not to overdo on long-distance telephone calls, Vice President John J. Anton of First National Bank bought and installed three-minute sandglasses...