Word: hallmark
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...little knew what he was stirring up. The French, he announced, would get half the prizes; their pictures would be judged by an all-French jury and they would have a crack at the $3,500 prix international on an even-Stephen basis with U.S. artists. Hall Brothers, Inc. (Hallmark cards) would become sole proprietor of the winning entries (with royalties to the artists). What Hall failed to take into account was the French Communists...
...Hallmark Playhouse (Thurs. 10 p.m., CBS). Carl Sandburg's The Prairie Years, with Gregory Peck...
...melodic line that breaks out of the traditional four-measure bounds of the popular ballad. He can write gaily, in complicated rhythms (as in Anything Goes). He can match a pointedly off-color lyric with an insinuating tune (as in My Heart Belongs to Daddy). But the true Porter hallmark is cut in the bittersweet lament of What Is This Thing Called Love? and in the sultry, Latin fervor of Begin the Beguine, I've Got You Under My Skin, In the Still of the Night and Get Out of Town...
They wore every variety of Occidental and Oriental costume, carried every conceivable type of luggage (one had a large canvas sack of roasted peanuts). They registered every degree of astonishment at their first look at a hallmark of U.S. life-the neon-trimmed jukebox...
...great mass of Americans, the automobile not only represents the keystone of happiness and the hallmark of success but is the only unshifting goal in a baffling world. Millions who live unscarred through the jalopy or adolescent stage of life toil for decades to progress from Ford to Pontiac, from Pontiac to Buick, and cannot die happy unless guaranteed delivery to the grave in a Packard or Cadillac hearse...