Word: patently
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Cipriano Castro, 62, one-time dictator of Venezuela; in San Juan, Porto Rico, from hemorrhage of the stomach. In 1890 his neighbors sent him, part Negro, part Indian, to Congress. He bought him a pair of patent leather boots. Boots, however, were his abomination; and each time that he went to Congress he was wont to take them off and place them under his desk until time for leaving came around...
...protection and promised a royal charter to the society. Most of the habitués of Conrart's garret would have preferred to remain free; but it was dangerous to oppose the Cardinal, so they reluctantly were forced to accept the offer of His Eminence. In 1635, letters patent were granted by the King, and the Académie Française came into being...
...feed. Promoters are becoming active in the ever-fruitful Middle West. In spurious securities as in women's hats, fashions come and go. The great oil stock mania has apparently burned itself out, but in its place has arrived a credulity concerning fake land companies, ingenious but unsalable patent devices with "millions in it," and other corporate novelties...
...offered which the Medical Association declared to be positively fraudulent. Hygeia reproduced, in reduced size, a pageful of these advertisements, commenting also on the fact that Physical Culture, while professing a violent antagonism to drugs, would accept displays for such substances as "Sargol," "Sanatogen," "Absorbine Jr., "Murine" and other patent medicines...
...life in the form of a thin flame shaking upon a thread. The electricity generated by the heart is carried to a silver quartz thread hanging in a magnetic field. As the heart strikes in and out, this faint fire shakes and shakes in the silver cord-patent to man, as it was of old to Atropos* Dr. Charles H. Mayo of Minnesota warned laconically: "Americans eat too much." Officers elected: Dr. Rudolph Matas, of New Orleans, President; Drs. Eugene H. Pool of Manhattan, and John S. McFachern of Calgary, Canada, Vice Presidents...