Word: trademark
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...played and made his first "breadbasket" catch of a fly ball. The catch, with cupped hands resting on his belt buckle as the ball skimmed by his peaked cap, always brought a gasp and then a cheer from the crowds, and it became the Rabbit's trademark. He performed legendary fielding feats with George Stallings' famed Boston Braves of 1914, who got up from eighth place on July 4 to win the pennant. Though Shortstop Maranville's lifetime average as a hitter was just .258, his chips-are-down .307 average that year helped the Braves sweep...
Perhaps the only thing more amusing than the Thurber approach to humor is the Thurber approach to cartooning. The inevitable fearsome women and lugubrious dogs dot the pages of the book, lending an added not of whimsy to the text. But even without the drawings, the author's trademark is hard to miss. Not necessarily orthodox, but almost always sophisticated, Thurber Country is the kind of Christmas gift you won't want to exchange...
Dabbing at her own nose occasionally as she turns 13-because her classmates have thus far failed to single her out for admiring attention-Cress resolves to be a "character." Her trademark, she decides, will be Craziness, and pretty soon long-suffering Pa & Ma Delahanty begin to find around the house lists of premeditated behavior, e.g., "Useful Gags for Craziness. I. Clothes, A. Shoes, 1. Unmatched." One of her projects is to wait until she gets on the school bus before putting on her shoes. This gets her a squib in the school paper and passing fame as the author...
Zabaleta rippled out a notable program anyhow. Instead of the usual keyboard music arranged for the harp, he played nothing that was not written specifically for his instrument. Instead of misty sound effects and undulating glissandos that have become a trademark of harp performances, he played clean-cut melody and counterpoint. High point: Hindemith's Sonata (1939), with its ear-twisting harmonies and Celtic echoes...
...drama in Wolfe's torrential prose was not easy. McCleery chose an episode dealing with the last days of a Southern patriarch and the effect of his death on relatives and friends. The story was told mostly in the screen-filling close-ups that have become a McCleery trademark. Actor Thomas Mitchell gave a memorable portrait of the old man "who, knowing that he had often lived badly, was now determined to die well." The show was alive with crosscurrents of affection and hate, small tyranny and big-souled resignation, all set to the orchestration of Wolfe...