For this reason it conveys something of the texture of daily life in New York in the nineteenth century, while bringing Tweed out from behind the shadows of Thomas Nast's leering cartoons, and presenting him, as much as is possible, as a man and not an icon. An interesting example of ...
and through political services to Jay Gould and James Fisk he became a director of the Erie RR. But it was chiefly from the rich plums plucked through the control of New York City expenditures that Tweed made his great fortune. For a time theTweed Ring,consisting of Tweed and his henchmen...
Heard her phone ring The night before Groundhog Day. “Hello there, Pippa? It’s your old pal Phil Here in Punxsutawney And feeling quite ill! I tried not to call I tried to hold out But it’s nearly tomorrow And my health is in doubt. Shadowed or not, a groundhog must be here ...
英文: German-born American editorial cartoonist whose caricatures in Harper's Weekly contributed to the downfall of the Tweed Ring in New York City. He also established the donkey and the elephant as symbols of the Democratic and Republican parties. 中文: 纳斯特,托马斯1840-1902德裔美国社论卡通画家...
The New York City Tweed Ring probably made off with more money that all the southern thieves, black and white, combined. 纽约城的TweedRing 偷的钱可能比所有的南方州的盗贼,不管黑人白人,加起来的数目还要多。 article.yeeyan.org On Sunday, the 27-year-old briefly left the Royal Marsden hospital...
Eine Gruppe Politiker um ihn hieß: TheTweedRing. Tenía un grup de polítics anomenat " TheTweedRing ". OpenSubtitles2018.v3 Die Schotten überquerten mit ihren Kommandeuren Leslie und Montrose denTweedund Karls Armee ergriff die Flucht. ...
Heard her phone ring The night before Groundhog Day. “Hello there, Pippa? It’s your old pal Phil Here in Punxsutawney And feeling quite ill! I tried not to call I tried to hold out But it’s nearly tomorrow And my health is in doubt. ...
New York City was controlled by the "Tweed Ring" consisting of Peter Sweeny, city chamberlain; Richard B. Connolly, city comptroller; A. Oakey Hall, mayor and of course Boss Tweed himself; the man behind the curtain pulling all the levers of power. Boss Tweed used his influence with state...
The Democratic boss of New York City in the 1860s, he defrauded the city of millions of dollars before being exposed and convicted (1873). American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by ...
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