Word: bookmark
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Simple Bookmark, in which the operator by lifting his reading glasses releases a flock of moths who eat a woolen sock which drops a tear-gas bomb which causes a small dog to weep into a sponge whose added weight puts into operation a magic lantern which casts on the book's cover the likeness of a man who has stolen the wife of an angry dwarf who plunges a dagger through the picture and into the book, stopping when he strikes a pet flea who jumped between the pages to sleep when the book was laid down...
Using an uncashed check as a bookmark brought Ralph J. Baker, professor of Law, to the brink of disbarment when the Supreme Court cited him for "unbecoming conduct." Mr. Baker's dealings were exposed by the Court in a pause yesterday following the decision returning $200,000,000 in impounded AAA processing taxes...