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PARTY COLOURS LITTLE STORIES: The Gage of Battle

... period the Whigs frequently adopted the colour. In some satirical verses published after the death of Bishop Burnet, his Satanic Majesty is represented as asking after Dr. Hoadley, and Burnet as replying 44 Oh, perfectly well: A truer blue Whig you have ...

Published: Saturday 11 December 1909
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1669 | Page: 10 | Tags: Photographs 

A BISHOP keeps on sa

... donkey's nose bring these lines appropriately to the mind As to my principles, I glory In having nothing of the sort I ain't a Whig, I ain't a Tory, I'm just a candidate, in short. 0 6> 0 Y1 hivalry, says a cynic in Mrs: Bull, is man's post-dated cheque ...

Published: Wednesday 03 January 1912
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3066 | Page: 18 | Tags: Photographs 

Parties and Politics

... barometer, according as the weather was fair or stormy. 1 n danger the nation usually called for the Tories in times of peace the Whigs were preferred but whatever the issue these two parties were the only alternatives. Democracy is said to be so stupid a monster ...

Published: Wednesday 28 October 1931
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1432 | Page: 10 | Tags: Photographs 

SALES AND SAILORS: NEWS FROM NEWMARKET AND OXHEY

... new owners at the racing rpital's Second October Meeting bloodstock sales last Y dnesdav. A filly belonging to Mr. Charles Whig :n fetched the highest price (800 guineas), but Capta. Percy Whitaker gave 630 for a son of Sanso- vino of Mrs. J. P. Arkwright's ...

Published: Wednesday 18 October 1933
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 268 | Page: 9 | Tags: Photographs 

IN THE SOCIAL SWIM

... , who will wed the Hon. W. H. Smith, the son of Viscount Hambleden, next month CAMBRIDGE HONOURS SIR JOHN SIMON: The great Whig, who has only recently returned from an epoch-making investigation in India, with Sir Barrington Hurst in the procession to ...

Published: Saturday 16 June 1928
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 324 | Page: 23 | Tags: Photographs 

VIGNETTES OF THE FOUR GEORGES

... good-bye to his pleasant little country palace and the people who recognised what a good German he had always been. To the Whig Princes of England he was indispensable. They were ashamed of him, and cham pioned him with their left hands when the Tories ...

Published: Saturday 28 May 1910
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1710 | Page: 24 | Tags: Photographs 

The Critical Attitude: Applied to the Affairs of the World in General; SAVING THE CABINET'S FACE: THE SPURIOUS ..

... certainly regards the women as Conservatives it is probable that, being a senti mental Whig of the type that the dear gods make blind, he regards the Democracy as Whig-Radical. So that he may have said that he would counter balance a limited Conservative-female ...

Published: Wednesday 17 January 1912
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1710 | Page: 31 | Tags: Photographs 

A Racing Reverie: Debs and Debts

... more appropriate manner, for in eclipsing the Two Thousand Guineas and Derby favourite (New market, April 27th, 1932) Miss Whig- ham made Turf history. 1929 was a vintage year for Debutantes. One after another, proud mothers arrived in London with well- ...

Published: Wednesday 30 November 1932
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 995 | Page: 11 | Tags: Photographs 

All in the Game

... Premiership as Pitt's warming-pan until the Treaty of Amiens was broken, was by no means the uncultured fool represented by the Whigs. According to Glenbervie he was a very good Speaker, though as Prime Minister during a big war he was hopelessly overshadowed ...

Published: Wednesday 13 June 1928
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 980 | Page: 10 | Tags: Photographs 

SIR WILLIAM'S APOLOGUE

... ship, and Jack Nastyface into the bargain, slick away, as Jonathan says, to Davy's locker. Now Jack Nastyface represents the Whigs and Radicals-- very good fellows, I dare say but keep 'em in their places don't let 'em come upon the quarter-deck of the country ...

Published: Saturday 29 July 1916
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 975 | Page: 12 | Tags: Photographs