Why don't Uncle Sam mind his own fucken business??

`` Uncle Sam '' was, indeed, a rich uncle to Prokofieff, in those opulent, post-war victory years of peace and prosperity, bold speculations and extravaganzas, enjoyment and pleasure: `` The Golden Twenties ''.

in the spacious hunting grounds of `` Uncle Sam '' ; ;

Into its chanceries each day pour reports from ministries around the earth and an endless stream of home-office instructions on how to handle Uncle Sam in an infinite variety of contingencies.

Uncle Sam would then accuse them of creating a monopoly by `` unfair competition ''.

* Uncle Sam ( initials U. S .) is a common national personification of the American government that according to legend came into use during the War of 1812 and was supposedly named for Samuel Wilson a meat packer in New York, who supplied rations for the soldiers.

With the American Revolutionary War came " Brother Jonathan " as another personification and finally after the War of 1812 Uncle Sam appeared.

Costumes may serve to portray various other characters during secular holidays, such as an Uncle Sam costume worn on the Independence day for example.

The production stirred deep controversy by featuring nude performers in Mickey Mouse masks dancing on the ruins of the World Trade Center and a female singer with a painted on Hitler toothbrush moustache performing a straight arm Nazi salute, along with sinister portrayals of American soldiers, Uncle Sam, and Elvis Presley impersonators.

American recruiting poster depicting Uncle Sam

* 1766 – Samuel Wilson, American meat-packer, namesake of Uncle Sam ( d. 1854 )

Originally co-creator Sam Rolfe wanted to leave the meaning of UNCLE ambiguous so it could be viewed as either referring to " Uncle Sam " or the United Nations.

Contrary to popular belief, Nast did not create Uncle Sam ( the male personification of the American people ), Columbia ( the female personification of American values ), or the Democratic donkey, though he did popularize these symbols through his art.

His nickname became " Sam " among army colleagues at the academy, since the initials " U. S ." stood for " Uncle Sam ".

* July 31 – Samuel Wilson, American thought to be the real-life basis for Uncle Sam ( b. 1766 )

Editorial cartoon: Uncle Sam directs U. S. Senators and Representatives implicated in the Crédit Mobilier scheme to commit Hari-Kari.

Political cartoon from 1860 depicting Stephen A. Douglas receiving a traditional " over-the-knee " spanking from Historical Columbia | Columbia as Uncle Sam looks on approvingly.

Democratic cartoon from 1833 showing Jackson destroying the bank, to the approval of the Uncle Sam like figure to the right, and annoyance of the bank's president, shown as the Devil himself

** The Further Adventures of Uncle Sam: Part Two-Haboush Company, Goldstone Films-Robert Mitchell and Dale Case

He wrote " If you wanted to sum up the relative position of Britain and America in this century – the ebbing away of the pink areas of the map, the fading of national self-confidence as Uncle Sam proceeded to colonise the globe with fizzy drinks and Hollywood – you could do it like this: they had Star Trek, we had Blake's 7 ... No ' boldly going ' here: instead, we got the boot stamping on a human face which George Orwell offered as a vision of humanity's future in Nineteen Eighty-Four.

* Uncle Sam ( October 30-December 1911 ) ( Broadway )

Illustration of Sam from the 1888 " New Edition " of Uncle Tom's Cabin.

And that is the way I first saw her when my Uncle brought her into his antique store.

It is, of course, easy to see how `` J '' will mean Uncle Jack to one person and little Jane to another.

It is evident that Lizzie did not tell everything she overheard between her father and her Uncle Morse.

Joel Chandler Harris's ' Br ' er Rabbit ' of the Uncle Remus stories is said to be patterned after High John the Conqueror.

The best-selling anti-slavery novel from the 19th century is Uncle Tom's Cabin, by Harriet Beecher Stowe, published in 1852.

Uncle Tom's Cabin is mentioned briefly in Gone with the Wind as being accepted by the Yankees as, " revelation second only to the Bible ".

Uncle Peter is Aunt Pittypat's coach driver.

Uncle is nearly asleep when he feels the bugs walking on his nose.

Algernon, however, refuses his consent until Ernest explains why his cigarette case bears the inscription, “ From little Cecily, with her fondest love to her dear Uncle Jack .” John-Ernest is forced to admit to living a double life.

Long fascinated by Uncle Jack ’ s hitherto absent black sheep brother, she is predisposed to fall for Algernon in his role of Ernest -- whose name she ’ s particularly fond of.

* March 20 – Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe is published.

* Uncle John Joad – Older brother of Pa Joad ( Tom describes him as " a fella about 60 ", but the narrator later tells you he is 50 ), feels responsible for the death of his young wife years before when he ignored her pleas for a doctor because he thought she just had a stomachache, when she actually had a burst appendix.

* Jesse L. Duke ( Denver Pyle ), referred to by just about everyone in Hazzard other than Boss Hogg as " Uncle Jesse ", is the patriarch of the Duke clan, and the father-figure to all Dukes who stayed with him on the dilapidated " Duke Farm.

* Coy Duke ( Byron Cherry ) ( 1982 – 83 ), the replacement for Bo, is another blond-haired cousin who moved to Uncle Jesse's farm along with cousin Vance after Bo and Luke left Hazzard to join the NASCAR circuit.

The beginning of the propagation of dance and accompanying music called polka is generally attributed to a young woman, Anna Slezakova ( born Anna Chadimova ) of Labska Tynice, Bohemia, who danced to accompany a local folk song called " Strycek Nimra koupil simla ", or " Uncle Nimra Bought a White Horse ", in 1834.

It became the best-selling American novel of the 19th century, surpassing Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin and is considered " the most influential Christian book of the ...

Clark quickly realizes that once Uncle Tom is released, no matter what happens, their kidnappers will have little reason to keep their prisoners alive.

Uncle Tom feels that Clark is dangerous and maladjusted, and attributes this to the mother giving priority to her career.

: This article is about the character from the Harriet Beecher Stowe novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin, and the resulting epithet.

Uncle Tom is the title character of Harriet Beecher Stowe's 1852 novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin.

The phrase " Uncle Tom " has also become an epithet for a person who is slavish and excessively subservient to perceived authority figures, particularly a black person who behaves in a subservient manner to white people ; or any person perceived to be a participant in the oppression of their own group.

At the time of the novel's initial publication in 1851 Uncle Tom was a rejection of the existing stereotypes of minstrel shows ; Stowe's melodramatic story humanized the suffering of slavery for White audiences by portraying Tom as a Christlike figure who is ultimately martyred, beaten to death by a cruel master because Tom refuses to betray the whereabouts of two women who escape from slavery.