Word: patently
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rather than the old-time politicians. The business men are answering the call and carrying in with them under their arm business methods and business maxims. Among the revolutionary theories propounded is that of Mr. Davis, Secretary of Labor,--that it will pay to advertise politics as well as patent medicine...
...Castoria," famed patent medicine invented half a century ago by the late Charles H. Fletcher, was sold to the Household Products Company, Inc., manufacturers of "Cascarets" and "Bayer's Aspirin...
...continued sale of these products is doomed to failure for purely psychological reasons. A property medicine to be successful, must possess two prime attributes, first, it must have a disagreeable taste or odor and, second, it must show immediate physiological results. The common yeast vitamine tablets and similar patent medicines must of necessity fail in these attributes, unless drugs are added, because they are tasteless and because we all have an abundance of vitamines in our daily diets...
...worn out by overwork and fatigue, exhausted by the thousands of blows on your heels or overwhelmed by business worries? If you are, do not bother with O'Sullivan's and patent medicines; buy a copy of Shakspere and rid yourself of all your trouble. Shakspere is advised as a sedative for the hurrying crowds of New York, and perhaps having tried all other methods of avoiding fatigue, some few may adopt this suggestion like the man who increased his Ford's efficiency 9643 percent by the purchase of accessories, bought a gallon of gasoline and started for California...
...masterpieces turning up or being "found" at present. The "hard times" caused by the war have brought out into the light of day literally hundreds of great and pseudo-great paintings, many of them authentic, hoarded up for generations by families now impecunious, and handed down along with the patent of nobility, as things to be kept in the family. In London, there has been discovered recently a reputed portrait of Shakespeare; in France a score of Millet paintings hitherto unknown have been brought out of some forgotten corner; and Murillo's "Gentleman of Seville", after languishing for a century...