Word: watermark
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...beach of public attention and then receding to the silent depths of history. The Utopian movement, whipped up into big breakers by the 1934 campaign, spent itself in the defeat of California's Upton Sinclair and his EPIC. Its successor, the Townsend Plan, touched its high watermark just before Chairman Doughton of the House Ways & Means Committee put the old country doctor on the witness stand and made a monkey out of him (TIME, Feb. 18). As of All Fools Day, 1935, the largest political splash was being made by Huey Pierce Long's Share- the-Wealth movement...
...property. So is the finished product. The process of making one into the other is the trade secret of artists, but on each book, picture, statue is the trade-mark of the maker's tools. The smoothly machined product of such novel-factories as Edna Ferber needs no watermark: consumers know it is standard brand, Grade B entertainment, an honest product sold for an honest price...
...love letter to Anne Hathaway and a tribute to an ancestor of Ireland's for having saved Shakespeare's life, a device used by Ireland to strengthen his story. The author even went so far as to include a blank sheet of paper bearing a characteristically Elizabethan watermark in order to lend an air of validity to the documents...
...Real British foolscap, 13½ x 17 in., is so-called because the watermark is a fool's cap & jells. U. S. foolscap measures 13 x 16 in., the same as legal...