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The Sketch

EDITORS' FETE AT THE SAVAGE CLUB

... William Senior, Editor of the Field; Mr. W. J Fisher, Editor of the Daily Chronicle and Mr. J It. Fisher, Editor of the Northern Whig had good cause to be grateful to the Chairman for his just appreciation of their services to journalism and their fitness for ...

Published: Wednesday 14 March 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 265 | Page: 6 | Tags: Photographs 

SMALL TALK

... best for his books, which, brilliant as they are, are yet inferior to his conversa tion. A Londoner of Londoners and a Whig of the Whigs, Mr. Russell is, of course, a scion of the ducal house of Bedford. The days are gone by when he held office in every ...

Published: Wednesday 22 May 1907
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1048 | Page: 13 | Tags: Photographs 

CROWNS·CORONERS·COURTIERS

... hopes the Prime Minister has felt and flourished upon the breezes of North Berwick, now en joyed vicariously by his wife. A Whig statesman of an other generation, Lord Holland, experienced a rather reversed order of things. He was expected by her Lady ...

Published: Wednesday 16 December 1908
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 889 | Page: 10 | Tags: Photographs 

MR. DAVID LLOYD-GEORGE, M.P., THE IDOL OF THE YOUNG LIBERALS

... benches a quarter of a century ago, and he is held up as an ogre, just as Mr. Chamberlain was held up, to frighten away the Whigs. His attitude on the War was very unpopular, but the staunchness with which he held it has increased the respect of many who ...

Published: Wednesday 02 March 1904
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 928 | Page: 20 | Tags: Photographs 

THE CLUBMAN

... AMERICA? THE WORLD-FAMOUS GIANT'S CAUSEWAY, WHICH, IT IS SAID, IS TO BE REMOVED TO THE UNITED STATES. The Belfast Northern Whig gives currency to an extraordinary story that the Giant's Causeway, or at least a part of it, is to be shipped to the United ...

Published: Wednesday 30 October 1907
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1021 | Page: 8 | Tags: Photographs 

THE LITERARY LOUNGER: Back Again

... peritonitis. In the case of Charles, apoplexy and fever were rather vaguely and hedgingly alleged by the physicians, and the Whigs said later that he had been poisoned by James not that they believed the quite preposterous lie, but because they hoped it ...

Published: Wednesday 08 September 1909
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1000 | Page: 20 | Tags: Photographs 

THE LANGUAGE OF THE BEAUTY-SPOT

... of the forehead, and those of the other on the left. Upon inquiry, I found that the body of Amazons on my right hand were Whigs, and those on my left Tories. Long before then, it is probable that the patch had been im pressed into the service of other ...

Published: Wednesday 03 September 1902
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1061 | Page: 18 | Tags: Photographs 

SMALL TALK

... month follows hard on the entertainment given by her brother in an exactly opposite political interest. The Guests, whether Whig or Tory and it is not always easy to keep track of the interest they favour make admirable hosts and hostesses. But nevertheless ...

Published: Wednesday 19 May 1909
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1079 | Page: 10 | Tags: Photographs 

THE-MAN-ON THE-CAR

... Automobile Club on Thursday, the 7th inst. Mr. S. F. Edge was in the position of that celebrated Government who caught the Whigs bathing and ran away with their clothes, for of a surety, compared with that consummate tactician, the four-cylinder enthusiasts ...

Published: Wednesday 20 February 1907
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1062 | Page: 27 | Tags: Photographs 

WOMAN'S WAYS

... the field and capturing each other's treasured guests, just as the Tories used to pass Reform measures in order to dish the Whigs. This may be malicious gossip, but the fact remains that the prudent party- giver has already begun to exercise her smile ...

Published: Wednesday 01 April 1908
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 999 | Page: 29 | Tags: Photographs 

AFTER DINNER

... us. Macaulay whipped up a little coterie of enthusiasts, and together they packed a stage-coach, inside and out, with young Whig Masters of Arts from the Inns of Court, and sailed gaily down to Cambridge. They bowled up King's Parade just in time to turn ...

Published: Wednesday 17 January 1906
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1175 | Page: 12 | Tags: Photographs 

SMALL TALK of the WEEK

... beautiful seats in Ireland, Westport House, County Mayo. Lord Sligo sat in the House for some years as one of those old- fashioned Whigs who used to be returned by Irish constituencies be fore the Home Rule agitation came to a head. The new Lord Sligo, long known ...

Published: Wednesday 06 January 1904
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 4050 | Page: 9 | Tags: Photographs