Word: digger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Baketball, for example, has Paul Busse, a six-footer who learned the game at Newark Academy, ready to step in and replace Giles Scofield, Princeton's captain and high scorer in 1939. In fact Busse, a good hall handler, a fine shot and a digger for forty minutes, already has won for himself the pivot sport, making him the only Sophomore on the starting five that has been used to date...
...case of U. S. v. Strecker (TIME, Feb. 20), the Court had to decide whether past membership in the Communist Party of the U. S. constitutes ground for deportation of an unnaturalized alien. The alien in the case is Galician-born Joseph George Strecker, a coal-digger who became a restaurant proprietor in Hot Springs, Ark. and there dallied with Communism to the extent of joining the party, but who paid dues only once. Last week the Court ruled 6-to-2 (Justices McReynolds and Butler dissenting) that past membership in the Communist Party does not of itself justify deportation...
Marquis has, after all, a wonderful ability for characterization. No matter with whom he is dealing he does so sympathetically. Mister Splain, a village drunk, a backslider, chicken thief; Cherry Saltus, the stupid, over-sexed girl who turns the town upside down by her adventures; Jim Shale, the grave-digger who is guilty of being an unconfessed free-thinker--these people the author neither reproaches nor encourages. He merely shows them to you as he understands them, with all the power of his insight...
Since last January, when Mayor La-Guardia turned him loose on New York City's government as Commissioner of Investigation, apple-faced young William B. Herlands, former assistant to racket-busting District Attorney Tom Dewey, has been turning up crockeries great & small. Last week Digger Herlands unearthed something neat in political rackets, an antique...
William E. "Digger" Kendall (ex-1940), champion free-styler of the British Empire, former member of the Varsity swimming team, and currently a salesman for a nation-wide bottling concern, has returned to Cambridge and, it is feared, by the party concerned, will take part in the Varsity vs. Alumni meet in the middle of December. The Alumni meet promises to be the hardest of the season...