Word: hallmark
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lewis, asked whether the offer of radio time was still good. It was, said Mr. Lewis. Hero Lindbergh then drafted a speech. His wife, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, writer of repute (Listen! The Wind, North to the Orient), smoothed out the draft, typed the finished version, left on it the hallmark of her husband's direct simplicity...
...Chicago do likewise under an old Bull-Mooser, a New Dealer, a grand-scale benefactor of Chicago like Harold Ickes? From his PWA the city has received $60,000,000 for a new sewer system, $8,000,000 (last week) for housing and $18,000,000 for that hallmark of modernity which even Moscow has but which great sprawling Chicago has lacked all these years : a subway...
...lustily as the royal couple, riding in an open landau drawn by spanking Windsor greys, jogged out to the exhibition site, wooded Bellahouston Park. There in the neighboring Ibrox soccer stadium before 60,000 cheering Scots, King George acclaimed the exposition "a symbol of unity of the empire, the hallmark of this commonwealth of nations...
Even those who did not know the legend of Amphitryon*-whose wife Alcmena was seduced by Jupiter-expected this because they knew Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne. Spirited Aphrodisiantics, urbanely conducted infidelities are the hallmark of Lunt-Fontanne plays, which take on added zest from the well-known fact that Actors Lunt and Fontanne have been contentedly married for the last 15 years...
Seldom has Cecil B. De Mille recaptured so successfully the sweep of panoramic action which was his hallmark in the silent days. Often his cameras, handled by four of Hollywood's topflight cinematographers, clinch the pictorial language of the plains in brief, consummate idioms: a stagecoach ribboning down the long slant of a prairie shoulder; the Cheyennes charging up a shallow river riding so evenly their ranks look like a drift of mist; braves in war paint raiding a cabin where two women are alone; a herd of buffalo, with a scout's horse among them grazing...