| Albert Bigelow Paine - Caricatures and cartoons - 1904 - 682 pages
...the Ring than any previous attack. " Let's stop them d— d pictures," proposed Tweed when he saw it. "I don't care so much what the papers write about me —my constituents can't read; but, d— n it, they can see pictures!" Threatening letters were received by Nast, one containing his own... | |
| Albert Bigelow Paine - Caricatures and cartoons - 1904 - 640 pages
...than any previous attack. " Let's stop them d— d pictures," proposed Tweed when he saw it. "I don 't care so much what the papers write about me —my constituents can't read; but, d— n it, they can see pictures!" Threatening letters were received by Nast, one containing- his own... | |
| Washington Gladden - United States - 1909 - 464 pages
...was him." No wonder Tweed was frantic to silence this accuser. "Let's stop these pictures," he cried. "I don't care so much what the papers write about me — my constituents can't read; but they can see pictures." Half a million dollars Mr. Nast might have had, if he would have taken a trip to Europe... | |
| De Alva Standwood Alexander - New York (State) - 1909 - 592 pages
...associates sat enthroned.14 " Let's stop those damned pictures," proposed Tweed when he snw it. " l don't care so much what the papers write about me — my constituents can't read ; but they can see pictures." 15 On October 26 all doubt as to the result of the election was dissipated. Until then... | |
| Joseph Henry Harper - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1912 - 722 pages
...Ring than any previous attack. "Let's stop them d — d pictures," proposed Tweed when he saw them. "I don't care so much what the papers write about me — my constituents can't read; but d — n it, they can see pictures!" Paine gives the following interesting episode : % The Ring now... | |
| Joseph Henry Harper - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1912 - 744 pages
...Ring than any previous attack. " Let's stop them d — d pictures," proposed Tweed when he saw them. "I don't care so much what the papers write about me — my constituents can't read ; but d — n it, they can see pictures!" Paine gives the following interesting episode: The Ring now resorted... | |
| William Backus Guitteau - United States - 1919 - 730 pages
...stripes which he so well deserved. " Let's stop those pictures," exclaimed Tweed, on seeing this cartoon. "I don't care so much what the papers write about me — my constituents can't read; but they can see pictures." Nast refused the bribe of $500,000 offered to him if he would stop his caricatures and... | |
| Frederick Franklin Schrader - German Americans - 1920 - 266 pages
...into action. Boss Tweed, the looter chief, called out in despair: "Let's stop them damned pictures. I don't care so much what the papers write about me — my constituents can't read; but, damn it, they can see pictures!" The pitiless cartooning of Nast finally broke up the gang, with most... | |
| Ellis Paxson Oberholtzer - Motion pictures - 1922 - 260 pages
...ceasing to caricature him and his companions in thievery in Harper's Weekly, " Boss " Tweed said, " I don't care so much what the papers write about me...understand pictures." So it is with the " movie." It is one thing to speak or write in words of an assault upon womanhood ; another to depict it in living... | |
| Leon Carroll Marshall - Civilization - 1926 - 520 pages
...cartoons kept on appearing. The pictures began to take effect; Tweed, himself, said, "Let's stop them. I don't care so much what the papers write about me — my constituents can't read; but they can see pictures!" So the Ring tried to bribe Nast. A lawyer came to him, one day, to tell him that some... | |
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