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...sure that after three years' total abstinence she would come out stronger than ever she was before, and better prepared to enter afresh upon her great career of enterprise. What would happen if no cotton was furnished for three years? I will not stop to depict what every one can imagine, but this is certain: England would topple headlong and carry the whole civilized world with her, save the South. No, you dare not make war on cotton. No power on earth dares to make war upon it. Cotton is King...
...George Holden Tinkham].*" He declared his campaign activities were for Presidential electors who, he claimed, were State officers and thus beyond Congressional jurisdiction. Overruling all objections, Senator Nye called on Mr. Manly to reveal his findings. A large chart was set up on which Investigator Manly had attempted to depict all the Cannon bank accounts and the connecting "pipelines" through which the Bishop pumped funds back & forth bewilderingly. Investigator Manly's disclosures...
...Bland: We are trying to depict something deeper and greater than the mere surrender of men in a single battle. We want to emphasize a truth of ideals rather than to glorify a war victory...
...been defined as "the expression of thought without the control of reason, that is, the painting of dreams and states of mind by any means whatsoever." Cubism, in other words, was still objective painting; it attempted to suggest the appearance of things. Surrealism is subjective painting, attempts to depict an irrational emotional reaction-which, almost by definition, can make no sense to anyone except the emoter...
...young mischievous fellow with his thumb to his nose. In the U. S. the first cartoon of Uncle Sam appeared in the New York Lantern, comic weekly, of March 13, 1852 (see cut). The artist was F. Bellew. The scene called "Raising the Wind" was supposed to depict the struggle between a U. S. shipowner against the Cunard Company, with John Bull actively helping his line and Uncle Sam a more amiable onlooker. Bellew's figure gained wide popularity and was taken over by Thomas Nast, cartoonist for Harper's Weekly in the 70s, who added whiskers...