Word: patently
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mouth over the muzzle of his shotgun. A fading saleswoman sees a bearded lover watching daily from a neighboring window for her arisings; discovers the face to be a carved Christ's; resigns herself once more to loving the celluloid doll in her store-window demonstration of a patent crib. There are moments when the author's sensitive comprehension threatens to quaver and mawk, but these moments are rare and in them quiet ecstasy is equally imminent. Some may say that the frustrated or guilty woman appears rather more frequently in Benefield stories than seems natural; that...
Divorced. Frieda Hempel, famed opera singer, from William D. Kahn, Manhattan patent broker, in Paris...
...LAST OF MRS. CHEYNEY? Ina Claire nearing the end of her run in the patent leather comedy of crooks in a London country house...
Last week in Detroit concrete figures about past profits-those of the seven years 1917-24-were hauled into court. The Parker Rustproof Co. is asking royalties of about $1,000,000 from the Ford people for the supposed infringement of patent in the use of a rustproofing process. The Ford company claims that the process was never used as a selling inducement and wishes to pay only established royalties...
Lord & Thomas learned that Mr. Douglas Smith of Chicago, having made one fortune out of patent medicines, was about to outdo himself with a new toothpaste. Lord & Thomas straightway learned all that there was to know in fact and theory, about the gritty white ooze that Mr. Smith's chemists had carefully concocted, and all that there was to know about the toothpaste market-the best distribution areas, geographic and economic. Then Lord & Thomas prepared messages to the public about Mr. Smith's toothpaste and laid before Mr. Smith a program as to where these messages should...