Word: americana
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...little flowerpot whose owner won't claim it still grows by stages into a gigantic tree, the guy in the strait jacket still rolls around for hours trying to get out. By now, however, these whimsies have acquired a kind of historical importance, have become authentic bits of Americana like the Katzenjammer Kids and Charlie McCarthy...
...without subtlety, subjective shadings, probings or questionings, its characters were instantly recognizable types. Scarlett's "I won't think of it now, I'll think of it tomorrow" was a catch line. Whatever it was not, Gone With the Wind was a first-rate piece of Americana, and Americans in the mass knew what they wanted before the critics had got through telling them they should not want...
...same kind of audience which listens to the New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra on Sunday afternoons, CBS last month tried out a program called The Pursuit of Happiness. For this show, a half-hour of not-too-spangly Americana designed to balance the ugly weight of war news, it collected a star-spangled cast...
...house where the Brothers Wright lived and worked no longer stands in Dayton. Henry Ford carted it away for his collection of Americana at Dearborn, Mich. But on Dayton's northern outskirts lies a long, lusciously green field named Wright, shaped like an arrowhead, flanked by a long row of hangars and shops and a broad cluster of brick laboratory buildings. This is the heart and brain of the Air Corps, the home base of its Matériel Division, where every item of equipment used, from a gauge needle to a 15-ton bomber, is examined and tested...
...America and the Dramatists' Guild) from the Rockefeller Foundation, began hunting for unpublished plays, of which he believes there are 20,000. In old actors' homes, in garrets of theatre folk, after devious detectification, Mr. Clark and his helpers found some 400 plays. As prime examples of Americana-but not of dramatic literature-Princeton University Press hopes to publish 100 of them in 20 volumes this autumn, at $75 a set. No one was more surprised than serious, bespectacled Mr. Clark when NBC asked him to supervise production of nine Lost Plays, and comment on them during performance...