Word: patently
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...crowds milled thickly: an ingot of solid gold! A bottle of platinum filings! Of palladium! In a far corner, a genial little man plunged a gas blow torch into a jug of water. "See, it still burns furiously. And in that vat of molten lead, too. Reason: our patent pumps and tanks mix with ordinary city gas all the air it needs to burn efficiently anywhere." Hard by was a row of bottles with "white fish meal-for cattle," "impure glycerine-pure glycerine," "cod liver oil, certified grade," and other irrelevant mottoes. "Na, na!" said the gnarled Scot in charge...
Commenting on the death of Victor F. Lawson (see Page 29), The Journal of the American Medical Association last week called attention to the fact that ten years ago Mr. Lawson went to the expense of having analyses made of patent medicines offered for advertising in the Chicago News, and then submitted the chemists' reports to his physicians, who passed on the claims made for such medicines before they could be advertised...
...Buckingham Palace, two royal tea parties were given by the King and Queen. These simple, democratic functions, inaugurated after the War, are said to do the King more good than a stiff Scotch and soda. Peers, Ambassadors, Princes of India, clergymen, social leaders of every strata -some in toppers, patent leather shoes and formal afternoon attire, others in humble headgear, stouter footwear and business clothes-all rubbed shoulders. The King smiled. Americans were present: Mrs. Joseph R. Lamar, Atlanta, Ga.; Mrs. E. M. Townsend, New York; Mrs. John Lowell, Boston; Mrs. N. T. Bacon, Providence, R. I.; Mrs. A Crittenden...
...existence of that portly and proper small-town jeweler when he made her acquaintance on a train. Gossips beheld the illumination as the lurid glare of scandal. Bisbee's wife wailed and railed. Bisbee's business boomed. Long after, when the princess wrote for a pair of patent spectacles, Bisbee postured, privately but gallantly, with a paper cutter...
...Caesar extolled its fame as one of the best products of the Gauls. It resisted all invasions, inasmuch as, in the Dark Ages, charters included Roquefort cheeses in the tributes to be annually contributed to the stores of feudal lords. Other charters of Charles VI and VII and letters patent of Francis I and Louis XIII solemnly ruled that Roquefort cheese must be made with sheep's milk and aged in the natural grottos of Roquefort...