Word: searchings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...partisan cartoonist, not curious but bitter, depicts the Republican Covered Wagon just as it has crossed Recent Election River. The perplexed Elephant turns to Driver Cal, asking: "Now, where's that half-breed guide of ours gone ?" And Cal replies : "Search me ! He was in the wagon until we got safely across the river." But the trenchant pen of the cartoonist* discovers the "half-breed guide"-and what does he wear but the face of Mr. Borah?-hiding behind the brush and whispering to the prowling savages who wear insurgent feathers in their topknots...
...their zeal to enforce the law, prohibition agents have already given severe jolts to the constitutional freedom from unwarranted search. Mr. Buckner's decision to employ the injunction, however praiseworthy as a showing of efficiency, comes between the people and their right to trial by jury
...become altogether too much a playwright of the printed page in our theatre. His works are rather reverenced than revived. Accordingly, it is immensely satisfying to see The Wild Duck live again in a conspicuously competent production of The Actors' Theatre. It provides an evening of exacting search through the mind and the emotions. This search is rewarded by one of the two or three most satisfying experiences in the season's schedule...
...spoke George Winthrop, seaman-writer aboard the Leviathan to a CRIMSON reporter. Winthrop, since leaving the University of Minnesota in search of "color" has had a varied taste of ship and port life...
...great newspaper in search of prestige and influence has sought to besmirch me. They have invaded the sanctity and privacy of my home and sought to enlist the efforts of criminals and those of low character. The people of Kansas will resent such attempts...