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tammany
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
in 19c. American English political jargon synonymous with "Democratic Party in New York City," hence, late 19c., proverbial for "political and municipal corruption," from Tammany Hall, on 14th Street, headquarters of a social club incorporated 1789, named for Delaware Indian chief Tamanen, who sold land to William Penn in 1683 and '97. Around the time of the American Revolution he was popularly canonized as St. Tammany and taken as the "patron saint" of Pennsylvania and neighboring colonies, sometimes of the whole of America. He was assigned a feast day (May 1 Old Style, May 12 New Style) which was celebrated with festivities that raised money for charity, hence the easy transfer of the name to what was, at first, a benevolent association. The club's symbol was a tiger.
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Tammany or Tamanend was a Native American leader.
Tammany may also refer to:
- Mount Tammany, a mountain on the New Jersey/Pennsylvania border
- Tammany (Williamsport, Maryland), a house on the National Register of Historic Places
- Tammany (horse), a racehorse owned by Marcus Daly
- Tammany Young (1886–1936), American actor
Tammany, or Mount Tammany, is a historic home located at Williamsport, Washington County, Maryland, United States. It is a two-part brick structure resting on low fieldstone foundations. The main block is a two-story, three-bay structure with a side hall entrance. Attached to its north gable wall is a two-story five-bay structure also of brick. The house features a one-story porch with a low hipped roof, supported by round Doric columns. It is believed to have been built in the 1780s by Matthew Van Lear, a prominent early resident of Washington County.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.
Tammany was an American Thoroughbred race horse. He was the favorite horse owned by Marcus Daly. Out of the American mare Tullahoma, a granddaughter of King Tom, the leading sire in Great Britain & Ireland in 1870 and 1871, Tammany's sire was Iroquois, the first American horse ever to win England's Epsom Derby.
Tammany was the retrospective American Horse of the Year for 1892.
Tammany, was foaled in Tennessee in 1889. Marcus Daly bought him in 1891 for $2,500. In 1893 there was a rivalry going on between Tammany and the favorite horse of the East, Lamplighter. A race was set up for the two horses in Guttenberg, New Jersey. Daly had said, "If Tammany beats Lamplighter, I'll build him a castle." Tammany won by 4 lengths. His "castle" is located on a hill about a mile east of Hamilton, MT.
Usage examples of "tammany".
When they were stopped by a traffic light on Broadway, Tammany roused himself and looked at Carver.
Later Tammany crawled back to the planks, his eyes veering swiftly to Carver and the girl.
Miller lowered her to the boat, and then he and Tammany helped Carver forwards, lifted him in after her.
On a raised space before the cabin Tammany stood at the wheel, his back to them.
He thought things out smart all through but he slipped on that and he was afraid to put Miller in the boat with us because he had only one gun, and he figured if the two of us rushed him and Tammany one of us might get to him.
In many cases money was taken from the city treasury, and used to purchase votes for the Ring or Tammany Hall ticket.
New York that the Tammany ticket could always command a majority in the city sufficient to neutralize any hostile vote in the rest of the State.
So the glare had no place to lock, and thus deprived Tammany of fuel for his ire.
Jim Fisk and Boss Tweed and politicians connected to the Tammany Hall machine.
So he and the Tammany Hall machine were probably behind setting Charles up.
He had been seventeen years in New York, and now a talk of Tammany and its chances in the next election, of pulls and deals, of bosses and heelers, grew up between the civic step-brothers, and joined them is a common interest.
All of them go in to down Tammany and take its place, but they seldom last more than a year or two, while Tammany's like the everlastin' rocks, the eternal hills and the blockades on the "L" road-it goes on forever.
East and West Campuses, he reminded me before I could remind him, were ideologically irreconcilable -- thus the conservative insistence that negotiation between them must be fruitless -- yet the record showed, to his satisfaction at least, that constant negotiation backed by flexible strength and firm leadership had brought New Tammany and Nikolay Colleges closer together in fact, if not in theory.
But I gimped beside him (most of the others were huddled in conferences against the arrival of Classmate X) and insisted he agree that the competition for supremacy between East and West Campuses was essentially a selfish competition, in which New Tammany and Nikolay Colleges each were guilty of seeking advantage over the other in every sphere and extending their hegemonies in the name of self-defense.
Well, in the municipal campaign of 1897, that young man, chockful of patriotism, worked day and night for the Tammany ticket.