Word: patent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Louis ("Satchmo") Armstrong arrived in Chicago for a theater engagement with his usual load of patent medicines and some ready advice for flu sufferers. Said he: "People wouldn't have flu at all if they'd watch the gargle and the eyewash and drink plenty of Pluto water...
Through years of spare-time dabbling in such occult sciences as prophecy and mental telepathy, Godfried Bueren, 70, a West German patent attorney, never lost his amateur enthusiasm for astronomy. Finally, he announced, he had learned something that professional astronomers don't know. The sun, asserted Herr Bueren is a hot, hollow sphere, a million miles in diameter; inside its fiery shell floats a cool core, 600,000 miles thick and lush with vegetation. What's more, he had 25,000 marks ($5,945) that said he was correct about...
...assumed that his half-sister, Mrs. Dolly Gann, would rank as his official hostess. Dolly had been with Curtis in Washington ever since he came out of Kansas to enter the House of Representatives in 1893, and had acted as his secretary for 20 years. Even her marriage to Patent Lawyer Edward Everett Gann, a Kentucky Democrat, did not separate Dolly from brother Charles. She continued to play an active part in his campaigns and, after the death of his wife in 1924, she became a full partner in his social activities...
...half the professional junkmen in the world had set up business there. On the crowded verandas of tumbledown houses, barefoot boys work at sewing machines. The "shops" are mostly tables ranged along the sidewalks, and heaped high with kerosene lamps, loaves of bread, shoes, shirts and suitcases, earrings and patent medicines (a favorite is "brain pills"). There is no color bar in the Gold Coast: its 4,000 Britons (mostly civil servants) dance and drink with the Africans, sometimes intermarry...
Well might the northern land have considered statehood not only a patent right, but one owed her for some time. Her citizens pay in excess of twenty million dollars a year without the privilege of even sending a voting senator to represent them in Washington. Moreover, Alaska has footed the cost of most of her own internal improvements. The Federal Government has given her little but military installations, while Alaska has poured over three billion dollars of raw materials into U.S. factories...