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Rather he plays upon the subtle confusion of what is reality and what is make-believe with a lightness of touch and yet a depth of penetration which remind us of that philosopher of relativity who wrote "Six Characters in Search of an Author". "The Living Mask", and "Each in His Own Way." If Pirandello is the Philosopher who has turned dramatist. Evreinov in this play is the showman who has become philosopher. Yet he still remains the show man. He knows that "We hear more with our eyes than with our ears...
...Automobiles, wagons, boats and other vehicles 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...
...Chief Justice Taft, in the Carroll case, said: 'It would be intolerable and unreasonable if a prohibition agent were authorized to stop every automobile on the chance of finding liquor and thus subject all persons lawfully using the highways to the inconvenience and indignity of such a search...
...does not speak in a football sense, however. The question merely typifies his search for the "essence of Harvard," which, he discovers, is the one important thing lacking in the University...
...Square and finding no bones broken, I considered the afternoon's work sufficient. Heaving a sigh for the great open streets of Louisville where Fords are Fords, not battering rams, and freshmen are not prospective hospital patients, I began the annual freshman quest--compared to which Sir Lancelot's search for the Holy Grail was without hardships--for enough sheets, blankets, dowels, soap, and divers other necessities of life which I had heretofore imagined inseparable from every bedroom and bathroom to make life livable until the long-promised and long-awaited trunk appeared on the scene...