Word: patents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...nighter at the theatre, it is hardly likely that any of these specialties got him a job. Perhaps his neat way of dressing contributed. He is a natty dresser, likes rather a tight fit in his clothes, favors a green fabric with a white stripe, is given to wearing patent-leather shoes...
...special corps of 200 accountants had told Mr. Dillon that the N. C. R. Co. concern possessed assets of 41 millions, exclusive of patent rights which were nominally set at $1, and of good will which was not reckoned at all; that it had an annual business of 40 millions (85% of the world's cash register orders); that its 900,000 shares of common stock profited $40.69 per share last year after 7% had been paid on 9½ millions worth of preferred; that there was no funded debt...
...GREEN HAT?Patent-leather philosophies of Michael Arlen made durable by the excellent acting of Katherine Cornell, Margalo Gillmore, Leslie Howard and others...
...pushed that fist so violently into the face of Paul Berlenbach that the latter fell down and reclined on his side, head, ear, shoulders, hips and legs. The referee's arm began to rise and fall and a great crowd rose in pandemonium, for it was a fact patent to all that if burly Berlenbach ("the Astoria Assassin") did not get up shortly, Delaney would be the light-heavyweight champion of the world. For a moment everybody began to feel sorry for the prone ex-taxi-driver, one of the most unpopular plug-uglies that has ever held...
...Murray Hill Baths, once known as "The House of a Thousand Hangovers," another landmark of a Manhattan that is vanishing. Underneath it they found a pint of champagne, two pieces of script, old-fashioned paper money (for 25? and 50?), four copper coins, and letters of patent issued to one Dwight Berry Brown in 1814 for the invention of a waterloom...