Word: overwork
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Because of "excessive overwork which is propitious neither to my work nor to my health," Wilhelmina said she would give up the throne in favor of Princess Juliana. (At a ten-minute ceremony in the Knights' Hall at The Hague, Juliana was sworn in as regent.) On Aug. 30-the eve of her 68th birthday-Wilhelmina would resume the throne for a week of jubilee. Sept. 6 would be the 50th anniversary of her reign. On that day (or shortly thereafter) Juliana would become Queen of The Netherlands...
...think of such carryings-on, Hawthorne and his peculiar banana-split lingo have become the rage of Southern California's younger set. Most popular root word is "hogan" (example: "I was driving my carahogan in from Pasadena-hogan so I could get a hoganburger"). The young folks also overwork Hawthorne's favorite adjectives: keen, peachy-keen, and oh-so-peachy-keen...
...verge of movie stardom (as Joan of Arc), a mining town proletariette (Valli) dies of overwork and the effects of her impoverished childhood. A publicity genius (Fred Mac Murray), who has long loved her but, with a pressagent's shyness, dared not speak of the matter, takes her body back to the home town for burial. He is angry, and miserable, because the picture for which this unknown gave her life will not be released. He bribes every church in town to ring its bells, without surcease or mercy, for three days & nights, in her memory. The ensuing uproar...
Morrison, director of English, explains that the supply of competent teachers has not kept abreast of swollen high school enrollments. Blaming poor pay, long hours, and overwork, he thinks that if English teachers could put the debating team, school paper, and dramatic club under someone else's guiding hand, they would have time for more practical instruction...
Rosy Prospects. Britten regarded his visit to the U.S. as a vacation trip "rather from the general European atmosphere than from overwork." Though his knowledge of the U.S. is pretty well limited to New York City and suburbs, he found the U.S. "a very rosy prospect" for composers : "The American composer has little to grumble at; compared with English composers, nothing." In fact, he saw a danger of "excessive nationalism" in the way conductors indiscriminately played U.S. music, and in American composers' search for a style of their own. Says Britten: "No accident of nationality has ever excused...