Word: trademark
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rousing triple that brought the cheering Yankee Stadium crowd to its feet. ¶ Boston Red Sox Outfielder Ted Williams, 33, also called back as a Marine captain (he was a flying instructor in World War II), bowed out in what was probably his final game with a Williams trademark: a game-winning home run. Terrible-tempered Ted, who never in his life acknowledged the cheers (or jeers) of a Boston crowd, finally, with a self-conscious grin, tipped his cap to them...
...name a household word, she will be moved into the back of the admen's stable. In ads henceforth, Elsie, her husband Elmer, daughter Beulah and son Beauregard will play second fiddle to Borden's 210 consumer products. But Elsie will stay on as Borden's trademark, all dolled up in a new garland of daisies...
...result, Joe's San Francisco is a lonely place. Its deserted streets are eerily illuminated by glowing jar-shaped street lights ("my trademark"); deep shadows surround ghostly, luminous walls. Empty cable cars creep along phosphorescent tracks. To get his subjects, Oneto prowls San Francisco's hills and back streets, goes back night after night to verify troublesome details. On his jaunts, Oneto keeps an eye peeled for old-fashioned houses, especially those with plenty of gingerbread: "I'm only interested in San Francisco architecture before the [1906] fire." A good example of Oneto's preference...
...them connected by easily-opened fire doors. Although the overcrowding has hit Eliot as much as any other college dormitory, it seems nowhere near so uncomfortable because the suites were so big originally. Big rooms, of course, tend to generate parties and bull session, which have been an Eliot trademark...
...form of Cinemactor John Wayne. In 24 years of moviemaking, during which he has played some 150 imperceptible variations of the same role, Actor Wayne, a limber-lumbering 6 ft. 4 in. man with a leathery skin and eyes like a sad and friendly hound, has become almost a trademark of manly incorruptibility...