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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 ( 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.
An Uncle Sam is mentioned as early as 1775, in the original " Yankee Doodle " lyrics of the Revolutionary War.
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.

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When my Uncle offered me a part-time job which would take care of my normal expenses and give me time to paint I accepted.
It would be better for Joel and Uncle Randolph and Mrs. Tussle not to see them.
Bobby Joe and two or three of the other boys declared they had never been possum-hunting, and Uncle Bill Farnworth ( from Mama Albright's side of the family ) said he would just get up from there and take them, right then.
But jolly old Uncle Donald would tell her no more than that Bobbie had certainly been considered for the job, but there were factors in a large company which outsiders and even some insiders couldn't understand.
Daisy worked as a waitress at the Boar's Nest, the local bar owned by Boss Hogg, as part of an agreement with Boss Hogg so that he would give Uncle Jesse and the boys a loan for a lower interest rate so the boys could purchase the entry fee for a race that they wished to race General Lee in.
However, while both Boss Hogg and Uncle Jesse would scowl at the mention of the other's name, the two enjoyed a lifelong " friendship " of sorts, with one helping the other when in desperate need.
Determined not to be called an Uncle Tom, he refused to deliver the principal's carefully prepared valedictory address that would not offend the white school officials and finally convinced the black administrators to let him ad a compromised version of what he had written.
Leia would go to Alderaan and grow up a princess, which was how she got the name and title, Princess Leia, the adopted daughter of Senator Bail Organa, and Luke would be taken to the desert planet of Tatooine to be raised as a moisture farmer by his Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru.
Rapf was a minority, a Jew, and an outspoken left-winger, and he himself feared that the film would inevitably be Uncle Tomish.
While Stowe questioned if anyone would read Uncle Tom's Cabin in book form, she eventually consented to the request.
Thus, when the frame story required the use of a mechanical device, Doc would merely find yet another of Uncle George's machines.
During these visits he would often call to see " Uncle " Henry Duncan at the manse.
She then relates to Peter how Uncle Ben proposed to her, and that they would have been married for fifty years " this August ", had Ben not been killed.
Peter soon realizes that this is not the case, and Aunt May says that Uncle Ben would never have wanted revenge.
It was revealed that the Ben Parker who had died in the alleyway was the Uncle Ben of the alternate reality, while the Ben Parker who killed Spider-Man 2211 was, in fact, the Chameleon of 2211 ; the Chameleon had attempted to convince Ben to resort to murder, but Spider-Man correctly guessed that there were no circumstances under which Ben would do such a thing.
In the series finale of the show when Spider-Man had to stop the evil Spider-Carnage ( an insane version of Spider-Man who had merged with the Carnage symbiote ) from destroying all reality, he managed to make contact with the Uncle Ben of an alternate reality where Peter Parker was a successful industrialist, realizing that his counterpart in that reality had never failed or had any difficulties in his life, thus explaining his casual attitude towards his powers as opposed to that of his other counterparts, and hence would have never lost Uncle Ben.
If Spider-Girl has any children in the future, they too would have an Uncle Ben-May's baby brother.
For Pilger, United States President Barack Obama, is " a glossy Uncle Tom who would bomb Pakistan.
The character's Uncle O ' Grimacey first appeared in 1986 ( see below ) and would visit only one month per year, around St. Patrick's Day, bringing Shamrock Shakes.
In March, the Sydney Theatre Company and John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts announced that STC's 2010 production of Chekhov's Uncle Vanya would be reprised in Washington, D. C. during the month of August In April, months of speculation finally ended when Weaving appeared on The Hobbit's New Zealand set, shortly before a production spokesman officially confirmed the actor's return as Elrond in Peter Jackson's two-film prequel to Lord of the Rings.
( A judge overseeing the case determines that the intent of the law is to make sure a full-time caregiver would be present ; with Uncle Charley meeting that role, he assents to a legal fiction declaring him " housemother " to the Douglases.
The story marks the second appearance of Scrooge in a story but the first where he acts as the leader in a treasure expedition, a theme that Barks would later use often and is currently considered traditional for an Uncle Scrooge story.

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