Word: patently
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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John Spencer grew to years of discretion and mechanical knowledge. Re- cently, the U. S. Patent Office issued to him a basic patent for a new type of quick-acting thermostatic bimetal device.* Last week, the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Co. obligated itself to him (according to report) to the extent of a million dollars for this patent. The Spencer Thermostat will now appear on a variety of electrical apparatus, chiefly irons, coffee-percolators, water-heaters...
...considers, among other trivia: Midnight Revels (at home and abroad), Legal Cruelty (English courts), Universal Uncles (radiorators), A Rest Cure (English billiards), Graven Images (Madame Tussaud's famed waxworks), Royal and Antient (droll golf talk), The Springs of Laughter (Musical comedy). The vein employed is gentle satire of patent absurdities. Manners are mildly abused; the reader mildly amused. The soundings of the shallow end remain about as charted...
This steady and very great expansion has resulted from manufacturing and selling efficiency and world-wide advertising, rather than from patent protection. One advantage in this business is that every owner of a Gillette razor becomes a steady customer for Gillette blades...
...route three magnificent bows which wring continuous mirth from the Commons. Black Rod, having arrived in front of the Speaker's Chair, informs the Speaker that "this honorable House" is commanded to attend His Majesty in the Senate. He departs. The Speaker, clad in knee-breeches, silk stockings, patent leather shoes complete with large silver buckles and wearing a sweeping black gown and large three-cornered hat, stands up, walks down the steps leading to his Chair and leads the surging Commons to the bar - of the Senate where he listens attentively to the Governor-General's speech...
...Passed a bill creating a commission to select and sell such models from the Patent Office as are not likely to be of historical value. Care of old models has cost the Government about $200,000 in the last 30 years. (Went to Senate...