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During World War I the young D. A. got into serious trouble with war-hysterical citizens. He refused to be "diligent" in prosecuting "pro-Germans" whose crime was mainly their accent. Once at Dillon, Mont., a mob drove him out of town when he tried to speak. On the outskirts...
Diligent research unearthed the answer to the many requests from the west coast for the name of a former editor of the CRIMSON who became trustee of Vassar College and who was arrested in Germany for running over a goose.
In any language, 2,000,000 words are a mouthful. In California, they are the approximate number of words required by a diligent ex-G-Man named Edwin Newton Atherton, after $40,000 worth of gumshoeing over two years, to round up the athletic abuses, mainly in football, prevalent in...
Shortly before Recorder Mapleson died, in 1937, a deaf but diligent phonographic antiquarian named William H. Seltsam got permission to go through the Mapleson records. There, Collector Seltsam found not only peeping vocal relics of such golden-agers as Emma Eames, Johanna Gadski, Marcella Sembrich, but 16 records of the...
All worked overtime. One super-diligent engineer stayed on the job for 48 hours straight following Hitler's epochal Reichstag speech. Someone finally made him go home. When he had been asleep only an hour, his telephone rang. "This," said a velvet voice, "is the Crossley radio survey. Will...