Word: trademark
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dies Committee's hearings Representative Joe Starnes of Alabama said to Hallie Flanagan : "You are quoting from this Marlowe. Is he a Communist?" On the Senate floor, Senator Robert Reynolds of North Carolina gave a list of plays presented by Federal Theatre that "definitely bear the trademark of 'red' Russia in their titles, plays spewed forth from the gutters of the Kremlin." Senator Reynolds included Up in Mabel's Room...
...begat, with the aid of Shoguns, concubines and kinfolks. Down through the years Imperial legends unfolded into a religion and Imperial symbols became as hush-hush as primitive taboos-the divine sword, the jewel, the mirror. The Emperors took the 16-petaled chrysanthemum as a sort of sacred trademark. Modern Japanese are skeptical, sometimes even resentful, of these legends and taboos, but even the best educated observe the outward forms...
Wonderful is British school boys' slang. Derived from Latin, classical literature and centuries of schoolboy gibberish, it is as much a trademark of public (British for private) schools as the old school tie. It is also a clue to the character of British public schoolboys. Last week Britons able to take their minds off death in Flanders could amuse themselves with an authoritative new dictionary of schoolboys' slang (Public School Slang, by Morris Marples -Constable...