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... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... blue men all would be well. What do the words mean to-day At the end of the eighteenth century blue was the colour of the Whigs, buff of the Tories. The Edinburgh Review came out in its present blue cover with a yellow back because Charles Fox wore a ...
... most perfect Tory of the lot. Reynolds, the letter goes on, of course was Tory, but I 'm not sure that Gainsborough wasn't a Whig. (This, of course, has nothing to do with their political opinions.) Raeburn was a good Tory. Sargent wasn't. I can't think ...
... John Haig Clubland Series No. 17* -h The Cocoa Tree Club. 1 TN the Reign of Queen Anne those two irreconcilable parties the Whigs and the Tories had their I respective headquarters at the St. James's Coffee House in St. James's Street and the Cocoa J-Tree ...
... political significance to these doings. Swift's accusation that the Mohocks were all Whigs laid the train for the conception of a vast Whig conspiracy You wicked Whigs, what can you mean, when will your plotting cease Against our most renowntd Queen, her ...
... John Haig Clubland Series No. 17. SI The Cocoa Tree Club. r I TN the Reign of Queen Anne those two irreconcilable parties the Whigs and the Tories had their I respective headquarters at the St. James's Coffee House in St. James's Street and the Cocoa Tree ...
... political significance to these doings. Swift's accusation that the Mohocks were all Whigs laid the train for the conception of a vast Whig conspiracy You wicked Whigs, what can you mean, when will your plotting cease Against our most renowntd Queen, her ...
... similar situation did arise in the eighteenth century over the Reo-ency Bill during George Ill's first attack of insanity. The Whigs were the party who had always opposed the prerogative of the Crown, their object being to keep the govern ment of the country ...
... across the footlights, he will not again be Prime Minister, or even lead a united Liberal party. However that may be, the Whigs, as repre sented by Lords Oxford and Grey, have had their day. Such Liberals as are not Bolshies will have to follow Mr. Churchill ...
... the yellow candles in the cause of Reform Fox, the Duchess Georgiana, Rocking ham, the Prince Regent, Lady Jersey, the whole Whig aristocracy of birth and brains, was wont to gather here in the heyday of the Buff and Blue; and those two pale lovers, Lady ...
... liquor had a sort of political atmosphere or prestige, and was the Whig drink for decades, the Tories patronising sack, claret, and canary. The punchbowl was adopted as typifying the Whig party badge, and as other resorts followed suit, Lon don soon had ...