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... paralysing divisions of the Whig Opposition could have kept the Tories' long and weak administrations in power for so many years. The mountain and other cliques, the disloyalties and the private vendettas, these kept the Whigs in the wilderness for twenty-three ...
... house of Lansdowne have always been Whig down, at least, to the Home Rule split it is difficult to apply the term with any precision to the com plicated conditions of the present day. The family has outlived the word Whig, as it preceded it. For the Fitz- ...
... LIVING AMONG ANIMALS AT LAKE PARADISE: WILD LIFE WHIG] SURROUNDED THE HOME OF MR, AND MRS. MARTIN JOHNSON. LORDS OF THE WATER-HOLE OTHER ANIMALS USUALLY MAKE WAY WHEN OSTRICHES DRINK. IT TAKES THESE BIRDS SO LONG TO FILL THEIR BILLS THAT THEY APPEAR TO ...
... The famous Lady Melbourne succeeded by Lady Conyngham held a despotic position over society and these were followed by great Whig hostesses such as Lady Palmerston. In those days the old aristocracy were firmly seated in the saddle and the great families ...
... Thomas Creevey, a Whig partisan, well known in his day, a placeman and letter-writer, lived his life nut between the era of the French Revolution and the accession of Queen Victoria, covering the long decline and the brief triumph of the Whigs, in an atmosphere ...
... d accordingly. This is the only foundation for the rumour that the Presi dent of the Local Government Board had joined the Whig party. T n an account of the opening of a bazaar by Princess Henry of Battenberg I read that two hundred young members of the ...
... law, Wanda Baillie-Hamilton. I don't dare to wear my sandals I have gold and red ones, Baa in a crowded room, but Margaret Whig- ham sports hers every way .I'm ter rified for her little toes. Dolly Cam bridge the young and popular Marchioness has a variation ...
... Tories. Dr. Johnson would be pleased though I have no doubt that Lord Stonehaven is telling them that a wise Tory and a wise Whig should agree. And what of Hanley I cannot believe that the eighteen thousand-odd Con servatives who sent Mr. Hales to West ...
... pleasure-hunting people were beginning to suspect that England was not quite healthy. Now 1 am afraid these old- time Liberal and Whig valua tions have disappeared. The old men have made fortunes and the young men have dreamt night mares. The soldiers believed ...
... bids us take statements from British sources in Newchwang with just the smallest pinch of salt. The expedition which Mr. Whig ham accompanied was under Colonel Genke, who is a nephew of Tschaikowsky the com poser, and who speaks English better than ...
... becomes a dreary topic after a month or so even with a little film-glamour added. T ADY WA VERT REE has sold her jewels Mr. Whig- ham is selling his house, and a certain gentleman we all know has another house bargain a real snip, old boy. My advice is: ...
... these be pronouncedly Whig or Tory, compared with whose settled and unquestioning one-sidedness twentieth-century partisanship seems frothy and tame. On the whole, largely owing to the Holland House tradition and its literature, the Whig dogs have the best ...