Citations:Usonians

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English citations of Usonians

Inhabitants of the United States of America
  • 1903, James D. Law, Here and There in Two Hemispheres, Lancaster: Home Publishing Co., page 112 (footnote):
    A much more euphonious word is "Usonia," […] " Usonia," " Usonian " and " Usonians " sounding equally well.
  • 1907, “The Gateway”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), vol. IX, no. 1, page 25:
    The Usonians—You Are One. And T. Roosevelt is the Usonestro—The United States in Esperanto.
  • 1921, Amadeus William Grabau, A Textbook of Geology: Historical geology, page 63:
    A man might also be known as John Smith, Boston, Mass., U. S. A., which would further classify him as […] part of a still larger community, that of the Usonians.
  • 1922, Washington University School of Law, St. Louis Law Review, vol 7, page 71:
    Having thus traced the title, it will be well to consider the settlements that the Usonians found in their new acquisitions.
  • 1927, Frank Lloyd Wright, Frank Lloyd Wright on Architecture: Selected Writings 1894-1940, page 100:
    [Samuel Butler] called us Usonians, and our Nation of combined States, Usonia.[1]
  • Dec. 1953, Miriam Chapin, “Canadians are Different”, in Freedom & union, vol. 89, page 8:
    Americans, or as some Canadians choose to call them, Usonians, are sometimes surprised when they come to visit or to live in Canada that Canadians are so different from themselves.
  • 1958, Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College College of Education, Proceedings of the Annual October Conference, no. 25, page 34:
    "Welcome, Canadians, to our country." "Welcome, Usonians, into Canada."
  • 2009, Brian Michael Goss, Global auteurs: politics in the films of Almodóvar, von Trier, and Winterbottom:
    only when Usonians arrive [...] does the non-Usonian come to life, exit his or her torpor, and liberate his or her formerly latent inner Usonian. (p 207)
    Winterbottom was cautious about not appearing to paint 300 million Usonians with the same broad brush (p 219)
Usonian-style houses
  • 1987, Robert Twombly, Frank Lloyd Wright: His Life and His Architecture, page 245:
    Furniture and accessories were often built in, along with flower boxes that in Usonians replaced the earlier concrete urn.
  • 2002, Aguar & Aguar, Wrightscapes: Frank Lloyd Wright's Landscape Designs, page 280:
    The majority of Usonians were located in suburban areas that were relatively rural at the time of their construction.
Residents of the Wrightian community of Usonia
  • 2001, Roland Reisley, Frank Lloyd Wright, John Timpane, Usonia, New York: Building a Community with Frank Lloyd, Princeton Architectural Press, page 13:
    The early Usonians hammered out the shape of their cooperative in an astonishing number of meetings […]

References

  1. ^ This appears to be incorrect; no mention of the word can be found in Butler's writings.
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