Word: americana
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Henry Hoover)-for it was she and not Mrs. Herbert Hoover, First Lady of the Land-all squatted down just as though they were beside a campfire in the woods instead of in a Manhattan art gallery whither ''Buffalo" had come for the opening of an Americana exhibition...
...year-old shopgirl when a group of Chicago admirers bought her a ticket to Montreal where she won $1,000 in a beauty contest. Later, in the cast of George White's Scandals, she began to sing songs sitting, droop-lipped, on a piano; then in Americana, then in her own night club, she climbed from the piano-top to success. When Miami persuaded Universal to hold the film premiere of Show Boat in its town instead of Palm Beach last month, Helen Morgan went by plane from Manhattan to climb upon the inevitable piano, stimulated by the applause...
...Clarence Darrow calling upon the wise to look upon life "as a huge joke," the assembled intelligentsia amused themselves with the obscenity of Mother Goose. Unfortunately the Grand Vizir of Maryland Free State was kept away by a sinus infection. Accordingly he lost a rare addition to his distinguished Americana anthology...
There were more great moments in Giants in the Earth, just as there was greater epic sweep. But Author Rölvaag continues a faithful contributor to Americana...
...Allen Johnson is diffident, crisp, quietly intellectual. Graduated from Amherst in 1892 he received his M. A. from that col lege three years later, the same year that President Coolidge was graduated cum laude. He has published a biography of Stephen A. Douglas, has delved deeply in to early Americana. At Yale, he was Larned Professor of American History. Since 1926 he has edited his Dictionary. The Dictionary will contain in 20 volumes the names of all persons who have made important contributions to American life. No living persons will be mentioned and no persons who "have not lived...