Word: hallmark
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lovett got his wings during World War I. He left Yale at 21, flew for the U.S. Navy in North Sea patrol and bombing squadrons. Young and untried though he then was, he had the same quality of quiet, intense persistence which is his administrative hallmark today...
Mexican music can be rendered very well and very badly, but most of it has a seriousness and integrity that make a great deal of the U.S. radio's outpouring sound a little silly. And most Mexican music has that hallmark of all deeply traditional music: it sticks to the ears and can stand infinite repetition. A small, sound library of Mexican records would include some or all of the following songs and artists...
Based on the late, great Western Novelist Zane Grey's last story, Western Union bears the sterling hallmark of sagebrush romance. When Outlaw Vance Shaw (Randolph Scott), riding hard to escape a sheriff's posse, stumbles on an injured man, against his better judgment he risks capture by helping the man in to the nearest stagecoach station, then rides off into the night. The man is Engineer Edward Creighton (Dean Jagger), surveying the country west of Omaha for Western Union's next push toward the Pacific...
...mouthing claxon-like Cockney accents, draws an ugly but adept picture of a psychopathic killer; sparrow-voiced Betty Field turns the mousy Alma into a heroine with dimensions. But it is an actor's movie. There is never any real suspense in a story where suspense is the hallmark...
...Norse Knute Rockne. When Bonnie Skiles Rockne, who was brought to Hollywood for technical advice, had her first look at O'Brien's makeup, she pleased the publicity department by admitting: "I expected him to come up and make love to me." Such authenticity is not the hallmark of Knute Rockne-All American. Faithful and respectful as it may be to the Rockne biography, its frequent newsreel shots of Notre Dame at football are filled with chronological inaccuracies such as showing the lateral pass as a potent Army offensive weapon in 1925, goalposts in the end zones...