Word: americana
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Americana. The U. S. has many peculiarities, some of them absurd. Among the latter, it would appear, are business conventions, talkies, the beds in railroad cars, Chicago schools, the faces of taxi-drivers, women temperance addicts, Will Hays, subways, Roxy's cinemansion, and Gene Tunney. All of these, J. P. McEvoy, who wrote Show Girl, snubs with villainous though somewhat protracted gaiety in this speedy second edition of his famed revue...
Colonial at 8.10-"Americana". A spotty revue, with dubious humor and occasional good tunes...
Colonial, October 8--"Americana." A new revue by J. P. McEvoy, who has been known to produce some clever things in the past...
Died. Delphin Michael Delmas, 84, famed criminal lawyer, defender in 1906 (for an alleged fee of $100,000) of Harry K. Thaw, originator of the phrases "brain storm" and "dementia Americana," and one of the first lawyers to make a successful insanity plea; in Santa Monica, Calif...
...course, the Americana hunters who make their own gentility dubious by an inordinant desire to assert the vulgarity of mob pleasures, can and do challenge the intelligence of endurance contests. The rival show, put on by local patriots, which sent Dawes and Revere over their courses again, was much better costumed and much less attended. It is admitted that a man might be as dull as the Man Who Knew Coolidge, and still run a good Marathon. But ad these indictments carefully weighed still present no valid reason why a person should not stroll across Boston Common at the first...