Smithsonian specialty

Usage examples of americana.

We drove clear through the town to the biggest and best of all, the Americana, on the western edge.

The artwork is classic Americana, the rugs handwoven, and the canopy on the bed 249 With a clipped growl, she crushed the sheet in her -hand and sent it after the others.

By the time the local police arrived, the horses had gone back to grazing placidly, lending an eerie contrast between rural Americana and unknown alien intentions.

Iran has rejected efforts to exclude it from post-Desert Storm security arrangements through the creation of an exclusive Arab-dominated system there and, on a more general level, has expressed its opposition to a Pax Americana in the region.

The Sahara, the landmark, the Americana and the ominous Thunderbird -- a cluster of grey rectangles in the distance, rising out of the cactus.

High ceilings, polished wood, antiques, dollies protecting table tops, a basket of pine cones next to the fireplace, an afghan draped over the arm of the sofa-the whole Americana bit.

A check of government records by the Thai CIA showed that Colonel Kriangsak Vajiravudh was the owner of record of the Americana Hotel in the Yommarat district of Bangkok, as well as the unusual fact that the top two floors of the twenty-story building and the entire basement level below the parking garage had all been reserved for his personal use.

Was there anything in the Encyclopaedia Americana that would tell him how to get out of such a predicament?

So he went and bought himself a drip-dry green camisa, a pair of cheap grey pantalones, and a very light americana or jacket of fawn Moygashel.

The Doctor started as she handed him a flower of the Atragene Americana, for he knew that there was only one spot where it grew, and that not one where any rash foot, least of all a thin-shod woman's foot, should venture.

Usted, como el día, abarca el Occidente y el Oriente, en tanto que yo estoy reducido a mi rincón cartaginés, que ahora complemento con una pizca de historia americana.

The red, white, and blue color scheme was like a tone poem to Americana.

Una notevole parte della villa che Buddy Vance aveva trasformato in museo dell'autentica arte americana se n'era volata via in un'altra realtà.