... III IPS The Queen of the Whigs With Lord Holland I could go to hell, but with Lady Holland I would not go to heaven, was the sentiment of Ugo Foscolo with regard to the third Lord Holland and the lady who was Queen of the Whigs for the last century's ...

... formula. Line Chaps interested (purely non-politically) in Whigs have probably heard of the Whig Line, a deeply-incised furrow from nose- wings to jaw, acquired by all women married to Whigs, and caused by tight compression of the lips while listening ...

... character or other as a ftinking Whig, or even a very vile and ftinking Whig. This refers to the smell already mentioned, peculiar to Whigs (Tories smell of verbena). We know a man whose nose can tell him at once when a Whig has been in a drawipg-room. You ...

... Street was the fashionable Whig club when Whiggery was fashionable and when the word, reform, meant something very much milder than it does to-day, or perhaps because the word is at the moment somewhat nearer to the doors of the Whig aristocracy than it seemed ...

... person. If you want great Whig philosophers they are there by the thousand you will find them at every street corner. If you want Whig historians you have only to go into the first schoolroom, and in every locker you will find a Whig text-book. The Tory party ...

... the Unionist party have pooled their allegiance in Mr. Bonar Law, Mr. Long was, and remains, the Tory, as distinct from the Whig-Unionist, candidate for Mr. Balfour s mantle. For our part, we believe Mr. Long would have been the strongest party leader ...

... boiled down for the oil, or whatnot. There was never any Whig-shortage, because Whigs spawn so freely. Footnote Tory M.P.s of the same mid-Victorian period, hard men to hounds, often provided leading Whig hostesses with a similar problem by their after-dinner ...

... attractive fiancee of the Iiarl of Warwick, to whom she became engaged in Egypt On the left is seen a portrait of Miss Margaret Whig ham, who was one of last year s debutantes, specially drawn for The Bystander by Pat Charles. Below is a cari cature of her ...

... opponents in the House. With his magnificent moustache and his Oxford bags, he Jiecklcd the G.O.M. like a gadfly. Though of Whig descent, he was a Tory but his son has squared accounts by sitting on both sides of the House. The solicitor who would never ...

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... in motor car design. Evening News. m Its accessibility makes the work of the owner-driver as light as possible. Northern Whig. It is of high-class design and runs well.-- T/ie Times. c 14/60 h.p. 2-Litre Chassis £450 14/60 h.p. 2-Litre Semi-Sports ...

... the inner circle of the Whigs and a pleasant post in the Civil Service, which he held for about forty years and from which he drew a good salary. My grandmother had been the young and lovely widow of the eldest son of a great Whig nobleman, and she, too ...