Word: overwrought
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...basis of modern detective fiction, he clearly attached no importance to frightening people and wasted no time on realism. What kept him writing was his naive pleasure in being mysterious. Director Basil Dean has retained Doyle's point of view wonderfully well, so that instead of an overwrought modern thriller The Return of Sherlock Holmes is good fun. Obviously relishing his role as the author relished his mysteries, Clive Brook, wearing sideburns, in a woolen hat and old-fashioned loungesuits, knows just how to handle the Sherlockian pipe, as crooked and heavy as a revolver...
...author has observed it. In "Men Without Women", Mr. Hemingway presents a collection of fourteen short stories. Their protagonists are variously toreadors, snow birds, prize fighters, and other less important people. All the tales are tense, highly nervous situations, but in writing them. Mr. Hemingway does not himself become overwrought: with fine restraint, with a knife-like humor, the author recounts the tragedies and failures of his characters. He writes in the simplest possible terms, in starling pictures, as clear and sharp as snap-shots. In the dialogue, Mr. Hemingway maintains the tempo of his stories: exciting it is, intense...
Thus did the overwrought Nation* begin its obsequies over another long-lost cause. In Boston, less hysterical people than the Nation's editor went about the sorry business of disposing of the bodies of Messrs. Sacco & Vanzetti and the practical business of keeping martrydom alive with yet more litigation...
...been quoted. Adolph, the CRIMSON mascot, jumped to his feet waving the red flag presented to him by E.A. Whitney '17, in the days when CRIMSON diamond supremacy was a national by-word, and the crowd broke forth in a wild demonstration of approval. At this moment, two spectators overwrought by tension and excitement suddenly became unconscious and were helped...
...western town in the throes of a revival meeting is the locale of the play. A strapping shouting preacher (Crane Wilbur) is king of this overwrought community for the time. A tired, unhappy woman (Alice Brady) falls in love with him and mistakes her passion for religious ecstasy. As her mind falters under the furious lash of her misinterpreted desire, she kills her stupid husband. Then she goes...