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SMALL TALK

... Where is the Radical who can boast that he has tasted Salisbury salt But wicked inter-marriages and base friend ships between Whig and Tory make the higher exclusiveness impossible. Even at Mr. Balfour's dance there was no real safety. Lord and Lady Salisbury ...

Published: Wednesday 03 July 1912
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 891 | Page: 8 | Tags: Photographs 

CROWN CORONETS COURTIERS

... you assure me it 's all right, I '11 see about it. Devonshire House is hardly less guarded with walls, witnesses to the old Whig exclusiveness and the enthusiast who wants to borrow a drawing from a Duke or a Duchess must turn two corners and ring the ...

Published: Wednesday 27 March 1912
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 991 | Page: 16 | Tags: Photographs 

SMALL TALK

... Piccadilly, has a political as well as social interest, for the Spencer and Al>er- corn families represent, respectively, Whig and Tory traditions. But politics have not much chance against Cupid nor, for that matter, against fashion and the women guests ...

Published: Wednesday 26 February 1919
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1052 | Page: 8 | Tags: Photographs 

THE LITERARY LOUNGER: THE MAN WITH THE NEWLY OILED BRAIN: THOMAS WOODROW WILSON; Woodrow Wilson and Free Trade

... far back as '76, when he was twenty, he was an ardent fighter for the cause. At Princeton, when he was star debater of the Whig Society, and should have represented his Hall in the competition for the Lynde Debates, his principles ruled him out. The subject ...

Published: Wednesday 20 November 1912
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1074 | Page: 22 | Tags: Photographs 

CROWNS CORONETS COVRTIERS

... Athenaeum-- the only club, Henry Kingsley used oracularly to say, a wife should like her husband to be long to. Henry Reeve, the Whig editor of the Edinburgh, wished to be his proposer. Lowe, afterwards Lord Sherbrooke, told Acton he would stay away from the ...

Published: Wednesday 24 October 1917
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1036 | Page: 14 | Tags: Photographs 

SMALL TALK

... before his death, the politics of the family have become very mixed, and it is not easy to see how the tradition of the great Whig house is to be maintained in days which must see, sooner or later, a quite new opposition of parties. The Cavendishes are a ...

Published: Wednesday 25 April 1917
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1200 | Page: 6 | Tags: Photographs 

SMALL TALK

... Lord Sackville make a much fairer start for the Dominion a few days before. But whatever the weather, it fell indifferently on Whig and Tory, a consolation fit tor either party. Sir M. Grant Duff tells of a Channel crossing during which he and two other members ...

Published: Wednesday 14 August 1912
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1129 | Page: 8 | Tags: Photographs 

CITY NOTES: SOUTH AMERICAN RAILWAYS

... are liberally decorated with Unionist literature. A radical change has come since the days when the House was conservatively Whig, and the protection from free trade which the Stock Exchange afforded its own members last year has notoryously given more ...

Published: Wednesday 12 January 1910
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1446 | Page: 33 | Tags: Photographs