Word: hallmarks
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...Victor Moore to shortchange the customers is almost as if Tiffany's were to fake a hallmark; but by digging up a wormy act he appeared in 40 years ago, Moore has managed to do it. Billy Gaxton has a better skit, which is still not good enough. Hildegarde, the darling of the supper clubs, sings songs that badly need highballs and dim lights, and for a fully grown girl acts entirely too cute. Only headliners who deserve to be headlined are the Hartmans, whose take-offs on ball room dancing are familiar to many, but still funny...
...jail. "The local troops, all twelve of them, had been away. ..." Mr. Corell, the popular storekeeper, had donated a lunch, targets, cartridges and prizes for a shooting match six miles back in the hills in a pretty glade that he owned. The local troops, "big, loose-hung boys" (a hallmark of Steinbeck heroes), saw the planes and parachutes and ran back to town in time to be machine-gunned. That ended the first phase of the invasion...
...ranked another group of giants, massive of hull, with long, tapering, twin-ruddered tails. These are Consolidated's big boats-PB2Ys, four-en-gined big brothers of the two-engined PBYs. Like everything else Rube Fleet turns out, they are built to Fleet's most important hallmark: long range. These giants, designed for naval patrol, can travel 5,200 miles-possibly more-on a single load of gas. They can cruise at 170 m.p.h. on 45% of the power of their four Pratt & Whitney 1,200-h.p. engines...
Their training in the school imparted, in big doses, what many civilians think the Army lacks: snap. They were drilled in the spit-&-polish tradition that is the hallmark of all good outfits. They got demerits for not placing their shoes properly under their beds, for sloppy appearance, for languid carriage. More important, they got an intensive course in weapons, from the Garand rifle to the machine gun and the mortar. They took turns commanding their own companies...
...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...