Word: patently
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...press made by Mr. Coolidge on the first of January, in it the President urged that the gentlemen of the press cease to criticize the administration in its Latin-American policy, and condemned such action as injurious. The absurdity of such an attempt to muzzle the press was patent from the start...
...before the Civil War. Isaac Merritt Singer (1811-75) was a Yankee peddler hawking notions through Connecticut when he came across the lock stitch sewing machine that Elias Howe (1819-67) had invented in 1846. Peddler Singer made some modifications, upon which he got a patent in 1852. There were law suits, in which Edward A. Clark, Manhattan lawyer, represented Singer. Lawyer and client formed the Singer corporation. Mr. Hopper was their bookkeeper at $20 a week. To him they came. Said Singer: "Clark won't let me be president, and I swear...
...possible that a magazine founded (in 1883) to give "authoritative service to the Womanhood of America" can have as its policy, If it make's exciting advertising and builds the circulation-go the limit? Is it possible that Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis, who refuses to allow cigaret and patent medicine advertisements in his magazines, can sanction suggestive self-advertising by his ladies' journal? Can it be that an apostle of printed probity will now tempt the public with pawky promises...
Married. George Campbell Carson, 55, "Desert Rat," who successfully fought for $20,000,000 in royalties on a smelting machine patent; to four-times-married Mrs. Hersee M. Gross, who said she had now found her "dream man"; in San Francisco...
...close-fitting necklace of tiny coral beads. The hygienic feature of this necklace is that it is too short to be gotten up over the chin and into the mouth. "Nurse Knight necklaces," as worn by Baby Betty, have become the accepted adornment for occupants of the smart patent leather prams which parade daily in Hyde Park...