Word: patent
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...play is a welcome contradictor to the too patent idea that all modern stage productions must end happily it that were its only recommendation, it would command the attention of people who desire art at the theatre...
...Muskrats": Bert, Alf, and Old Bill. Mr. Edmund Gurney, as Old Bill, seemed to have stepped right out of "Fragments from France." A fine old walrus he was, blowing his drooping whiskers up from his mouth and expressing all emotions by the intelligent ejaculation, 'Ullo! As Alf, of the patent cigar lighter which would never light, Mr. Percy Jennings gave a very realistic representation of that cheerful, red headed little Irishman of the type which seems to have almost disappeared in these days of Teuton plots and Sinn Feiners. Mr. Leon Gordon, formerly of the Henry Jewett Players, took...
Little has happened in the University that the staff photographers of the Illustrated didn't "catch." The current number, dated October 22 and appearing on time, is jammed with timely photographs. From the bond advertisement on the front cover to the patent medicine boost on the back, there are words and pictures for all constant subscribers to think over and look over seriously...
Positions in the patent office at Washington at salaries ranging from $1,575 to $2,700 are open, according to bulletins received from the Government. Examinations to fill the vacancies will be held the last week of this month...
...first impulse of young men to seek action wherever there is possibility of service with danger or excitement to give it zest. The ultimate uselessness of such early service is patent. The lessons of England, the lessons of our past, our own wisdom in the true needs of national security, all show that such hasty enlistment means in the end only weakness...