Word: patently
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Married. Richard Barthelmess, famed cinemactor (The Patent Leather Kid, Broken Blossoms, The Bright Shawl) and onetime husband of Dancer Mary Hay: to Mrs. Jessie Haynes Sargeant, 27, of New York; at Reno...
...despite his exaggeration, exaggerations which bring a smile to the supporter of democracy but which Mr. Daudet regards as Gospel truth, there is to be found a germ of truth. Democracy has not proved the panacea for all national ills. M. Daudet believes that Catholic monarchism is the patent medicine which will provide the remedy, and says so in a manner that is comparable only to a combination of Mencken and Oswald Garrison Villard. One does not agree with Daudet any more than one agree with these two gentlemen. But the Frenchman is no more ridiculous than your Fourth...
...Esquimo Pie Corp. (bars of chocolate-covered ice-cream) challenged Honeymoon Pie Corp. (bars of chocolate-covered ice-cream) on its right to exist. Esquimo sued for damages, alleging that Honeymoon had infringed on its 1921 patent. In Brooklyn, N. Y., last week, Federal Judge Marcus B. Campbell announced that unpatented Honeymoon pies could continue to compete with patented Esquimo pies. Explained Judge Campbell: Ice cream and candy had been coated with chocolate long before 1921 (for example, chocolate creams). In 1907, one Val Miller had written a book in which he told how to make "cannonballs," a confection differing...
This was a surprise to many a person who had believed Christian K. Nelson of Onawa, Iowa, inspired. A college son of a village candy-store-keeper, he turned millionaire soon after his 1921 patent for Esquimo pies...
...studious, enquiring drift of mind, tried some of Mr. John. D. Rockefeller's newfangled Pennsylvania fluid called petroleum on the harness. It softened, unstiffened. Manufacturer Everest built a small still near his barn, made harness dressing, sold it, prospered a little, but was utterly ruined by a patent suit establishing that somebody else had previously made harness dressing in the same kind of still...