Word: legalisms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...used in the unlawful transportation of intoxicating liquors are subject to seizure and forfeiture. No search of any vehicle may be made unless the officer has reasonable grounds for believing that such vehicle is being used for the violation of the prohibition laws. There can be no search without legal probable cause for such search...
What to do about it is a more difficult question. The law brought about the virtual extermination of printed notes on lectures, but there seems to be no legal remedy in this case. Probably the only effective solution will be the gradual development of a state of opinion among instructors and students alike which will refuse to tolerate the patronage of these institutions. Until this happy condition is brought to pass, the prosperity of tutoring schools will remain a pretty fair barometer of in how far Harvard is a university in the truest sense of the term...
...chances are against it. In the first place, besides the legal question, the regular Republicans will be disinclined to seat youthful Editor Nye, because he, a non-Partisan Leaguer, will add one more to the number of insurgent Republicans in the Senate...
...wind that blows nobody good. The enactment of prohibition ruined many breweries and distilleries, and even some short-haul railroads which almost exclusively carried their products. On the other hand, it greatly stimulated some new enterprises-particularly those relating to human thirst and its legal gratification...
...Street magnificos availed him naught. Not until he bumped into old Buff Thompson did it come back to him that he was grey little Peter Blagden, "Mr. Peter" to family servants and solicitors. When the real Petre (John Kosciuszko Petre, U.S.A.) spurred an action, all the King's legal horses and men balked valiantly and the episode ended happily for nearly every...