Word: americana
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...warmest winters in Florida's history has the Gold Coast awash with well-heeled vacationers, so everybody follows the trend to ever more expensive entertainment. From the Roney Plaza near the foot of the beach, north past the Versailles, the Eden Roc, the Sherry Frontenac and the Americana, all the way to the spanking new Diplomat, the competition rages. Cadillacs crowd the highways; minks and white fox stoles topped by teetering hairdos fill ornate halls such as the Eden Roc's Pompeii Room, which looks (in Comic Joe E. Lewis' phrase) as if it had been "designed...
Ballets U.S.A. Brilliantly danced Americana as conceived by top Choreographer Jerome Robbins. In CHICAGO...
...Cambridge Scene who are tuned in on the main line of American folk culture, the names of Stella Dallas, Dick Tracy, Arthur Godfrey and Betty Crocker are not ciphers in a general twentieth-century void. These names and others like them are significant contributions to a respectable mass of Americana, as worthy of preservation as the Declaration of Independence or George Washington's garter...
...remember, yes, but we must not forget, that there have existed other eras, and other Generations--Generations that have made just as important contributions as our Wheaties Democracy, to the rich fund of Americana...
...spokesman for the foundation said last night that the fellowship will provide for an international exchange of students interested in cheerleading. "Cheerleading" the official noted, "has always been a vital source of Americana, and now we can spread it abroad...