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Colossal ineptitude had been Foreign Minister Ribbentrop's hallmark.* When he visited Britain in 1937, peddling collaboration with Hitler against Russia, he greeted King George with a Nazi salute and earned the sobriquet of "Herr Brickendrop." At a dinner with Winston Churchill, Ribbentrop blurted: "The next war will be different for we will have the Italians on our side." Churchill grinned and cracked: "That's only fair-we had 'em last time...
...hospital seemed to be called a factory) he saw young, earnest, sober-minded executives, who looked exactly like the businessmen at a U.S. junior chamber of commerce luncheon. They were Communists just as their American counterparts were Republicans, "because it was the party of respectability and its hallmark would be helpful to a young man anxious to get on in the world." The Komsomol, or League of Young Communists, seemed to White "a combination of the Girl Scouts and the Young Republican Club." The Society for the Godless was young Russia's Epworth League...
...Business . . . Right and Wrong." Several years ago Roundy had two sets of cards printed - "Right Business" and "Wrong Business." The bearer of a hard-luck story is handed the latter. The former is a hallmark of Roundy's approbatipn. "Right business" has become a standard phrase in Wisconsin sports lingo...
...final destination." When Tokyo announced last week that the Japanese would severely punish four captured airmen for their "inhuman act" in bombing Tokyo, everyone thought it was more Jap eyewash. Then the Japs came out with names and addresses (Lieut. William J. Farrow, of Darlington, S.C.; Lieut. Dean E. Hallmark, Dallas, Tex.; Sergeant Harold A. Spatz, Lebo, Kans.; Corporal Jacob D. Deshazer, of Madras...
...most monumental work. It has been shocking the staid since its first appearance eleven years ago. One Chicago critic saw the picture and headlined his review: "Horror Features Exhibit." The detailed enormity of Ida, with her fat, sagging, varicose-veined and slightly lavender flesh, is Albright's hallmark. Merry-minded artist of ultra-gloomy pictures, Ivan Albright of Warrenville, Ill. increased his reputation with one of last season's most shuddered-at paintings. That Which I Should Have Done, I Did Not Do. The picture Albright did do occupied him for ten years, won a $500 prize...