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THE LAST OF THE WHIGS

... character and his career, is that he was the last of the Whigs. There are men to-day whom our po litical jargon dubs Whigs there are still prominent members of the old Whig family; but they are innocent of Whig- gerv, they have little in common with the men who ...

Published: Saturday 10 February 1912
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 850 | Page: 34 | 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 

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 

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 

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 

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