Word: americana
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...present indications, Governor Smith will be nominated for president by the Democrats at Houston next summer. And after that, if the dam does not break before will come the deluge, a deluge to throw religion into relief, and overflow a hundred volumes of Americana, or Heffliana. Prohibition has been a sufficient bone of contention, but it may readily be seen that man can never be aroused to battle over his right to indulgance or his desire to forbid it, as he can be harried into charging blindly when an ingrained and unreasoning religious prejudice is invoked...
Plymouth -- "Broadway," 8.15 o'clock. Much like "Americana...
...first citizen of that boisterous, windy, middle western metropolis blew into town. For there persists a feeling that Mr. Thompson has vulgarized bigotry and ignorance,--a thing wholly abominable to the Bostonian tradition of suppression. "More and taller flag poles", is "Big Bill's" opening contribution to Americana. "All the better to sit upon," is the only reply from the birth place of that typically American pastime...
...Quincy Adams, a Negro clown, got bathed with boiling tar. Sometimes the bully-boy stops punching to strew around some casual obscenities; sometimes he just reflects, idly, wistfully, comically. At all times his book is as close to life as a stake-driver's undershirt. Admirers of realism, and Americana, must roundly applaud...
Merry-Go-Round. This second Richard Herndon revue with few people against many backgrounds may be dismissed as a sample of unseasoned summer hash, flung in a heap and presented in a panic. But out of respect to the memory of its saucy ancestor, Americana, be it recorded that William Collier calls Charles A. Lindbergh a "fly-by-nighter," that Marie Cahill recites a telephone monologue, that Evelyn Bennett dances like chained lightning, that Knox Herold catches the stern spirit of Bill Hart in a movie burlesque. Miss Bennett,* whilom "Baby Eva Tanguay" of vaudeville, looks like a street cherub...