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▌Independent Roleplay blog for the United States of America; adapted from Axis Powers Hetalia. May venture to be NSFW on occasion. ▌

tracylord:

Screwball comedies

(Screw-ball [skrue’bol] Noun, Slang, meaning unbalanced, erratic, irrational, unconventional), became a popular slang word in the 1930s. It was applied to films where everything was a juxtaposition: educated and uneducated, rich and poor, intelligent and stupid, honest and dishonest, and most of all male and female. When two people fell in love, they did not simply surrender to their feelings, they battled it out. They lied to one another, often assuming indifferent personas toward each other. They often employed hideous tricks on each other, until finally after running out of inventions, fall into each others arms. It was fossilized comedy, physical and often painful, but mixed with the highest level of wit and sophistication, depending wholly on elegant and inventive writing. Even the supporting cast was always of first-rate. Character actors playing eccentric types as well as a stable of familiar faces in leading roles (Cary Grant, William Powell, Carole Lombard, Claudette Colbert, Katharine Hepburn) [x].

martywtf:

Okey, I admit, I might have a bit of a crush on WWII aviator America…. more than a bit shhh 

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Pre-Code Hollywood refers to the era in the American film industry between the introduction of sound in the late 1920s and the enforcement of the Motion Picture Production Code (usually labeled, albeit inaccurately after 1934, as the “Hays Code”) censorship guidelines. Although the Code was adopted in 1930, oversight was poor and it did not become rigorously enforced until July 1, 1934. Before that date, movie content was restricted more by local laws, negotiations between the Studio Relations Committee (SRC) and the major studios, and popular opinion than strict adherence to the Hays Code, which was often ignored by Hollywood filmmakers.

As a result, films in the late 1920s and early 1930s included sexual innuendo, miscegenation, profanity, illegal drug use, promiscuity, prostitution, infidelity, abortion, intense violence and homosexuality.
“This purchase has been made during the period of Mr. Jefferson’s presidency, and will, doubtless, give eclat to his administration. Every man, however, possessed of the least candour and reflection will
readily acknowledge that the acquisition has been solely owing to a fortuitous concurrence of unforseen and unexpected circumstances, and not to any wise or vigorous measures on the part of the American government.”

Alexander Hamilton on the Louisiana Purchase

Hamilton felt the point that Jefferson shouldn’t get any credit for the Louisiana Purchase was so important he literally put it in the first paragraph of the piece. Priorities.

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Bobby, Jacqueline, and Jack on September 12, 1953.

thisisappalachia:

Mount Le Conte (by NKC_Pics)

The Origins of America's Two-Party System, Or So I've Heard

Washington: All right, we have this new nation, we're going to show the world we can do this the right way. Just no factions, we clear?
Jefferson: I'm not really feeling this administration. Bad mojo.
Hamilton: Who invited you?
Jefferson: Too much. Too much monarchy.
Adams: I don't think that means what you think it means.
Jefferson: I think I know something about republicanism. I supported republicanism before we dumped the tea.
Adams: Jump on that bandwagon harder, Virginia wishes it were as republican as Massachusetts.
Jefferson: We're so republican we'll just call ourselves Republicans.
Hamilton: You wish it were that easy.
Adams: What, like your mother?
Jefferson: I'm outta this Cabinet. Fans of real republicanism, follow me.
Hamilton: Fine, no one wanted you, anyways. We'll make our own club.
Washington: I'm sorry, did I fucking stutter?

saerok:

blah blah blah korea n hk chatting it up I FORGOT TO DRAW HK WITH HIS HAIR UP boo

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crowthis:

wow so Washington and Lafayette had the most endearing relationship ever in real living life I
“Hearken not to the voice which petulantly tells you that the form of government recommended for your adoption is a novelty in the political world; that it has never yet had a place in the theories of the wildest projectors; that it rashly attempts what it is impossible to accomplish. No my countrymen, shut your ears against this unhallowed language. Shut your hearts against the poison which it conveys; the kindred blood which they have shed in defence of their sacred rights, consecrate their union, and excite horror and the idea of their becoming aliens, rivals, enemies. And if novelties are to shunned, believe me the most alarming of all novelties, the most wild of all projects, the most rash of all attempts, is that of rending us in pieces, in order to preserve our liberties and promote our happiness.”

Hamilton, Federalist No. 14

The Federalist Papers by and large are a logical, well-ordered argument in favor of the Constitution and centralized government over the Articles of Confederation and a confederacy of thirteen very separate states.  It’s very cool-headed for the most part, and very rational, and then in No. 14 Hamilton just breaks out the cinematic rhetoric out of nowhere.  You know this guy, when he was writing this paper, must have imagined himself standing on a podium somewhere surrounding by cheering crowds and was just supremely satisfied with himself.

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