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The PASSING HOUR: The Bystander holds up the Mirror to the Gay World

... them will have the trains cut off for future use, it was a matter of little importance. The invitations for Miss!. Margaret Whig- ham's wedding are now out. The date is Tuesday, February 21st, at 1 1. 15 a.m. Morn ing weddings are becoming quite fashionable ...

Published: Wednesday 25 January 1933
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1993 | Page: 7 | Tags: Photographs 

The PASSING HOUR: The Bystander holds up the Mirror to the Gay World

... to match. Right Miss Angela Brett Zena Dare's attractive daughter, who is so like her mother, will be one of Miss Margaret Whig- ham's bridesmaids at her wedding to Mr. Charles Sweeny next Thursday Bassano Miss Baba Beaton, whose fiance, Mr. Alec Hambro ...

Published: Wednesday 15 February 1933
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1716 | Page: 7 | Tags: Photographs 

A LONDON NEWSLETTER

... ladies, whose bright eyes rained influence. In their hands the torch of aristocracy spluttered and burned out. The glory of the Whigs, the princely splendour of the Tory grandees, died with them. They knew Privilege, the sheltered life behind park walls and ...

Published: Saturday 25 February 1933
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3414 | Page: 5 | Tags: Photographs 

A LONDON NEWSLETTER

... how some of them escaped the searching axes of 1832-36. In the matter of wasting public funds we are too apt to condemn the Whig and Tory aristo crats of the Reform Bill Age as selfish and cynical job-mongers and squan derers. If there is a case against ...

Published: Saturday 25 March 1933
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3159 | Page: 9 | Tags: Photographs 

A LONDON NEWSLETTER

... has been variously governed in its time. From Rome for short periods from Nor mandy and from Holland and from Hanover from Whig country houses, from Downing Street. Now she is experiencing government from liners, air liners, and express trains. Mr. MacDonald ...

Published: Saturday 15 April 1933
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3049 | Page: 5 | Tags: Photographs 

A LONDON NEWSLETTER

... are Old Masters. The moderns regard them and their works with an indulgent smile, much as the reformer of to-day regards the Whigs of 1S32. Yet to scores of men of more than sixty years of age who claim to possess an under standing taste in art, they are ...

Published: Saturday 06 May 1933
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2642 | Page: 5 | Tags: Photographs 

Hors d'Œuvres

... 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: ...

Published: Wednesday 24 May 1933
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 724 | Page: 22 | Tags: Photographs 

A LONDON NEWSLETTER: THE GARDEN PARTY

... Royal entourage may proceed elaborate and curious. More recently I have been seeking from countless representatives of the Whig statesmen of a century ago permission to publish letters from their great forbears. The younger men usually have not troubled ...

Published: Saturday 29 July 1933
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2355 | Page: 5 | Tags: Photographs 

A LONDON ... ... LETTER: DIVIDED WE STAND

... party1' mattered more than country, one would say Pick up the Conservative cast-offs Turn Tory When the Regent dished the Whigs, the Whigs dropped the Regent and backed Caroline, and the Tories took over the Regent. To-day the Tories have adopted Socialism ...

Published: Saturday 14 October 1933
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2324 | Page: 7 | Tags: Photographs 

SALES AND SAILORS: NEWS FROM NEWMARKET AND OXHEY

... new owners at the racing rpital's Second October Meeting bloodstock sales last Y dnesdav. A filly belonging to Mr. Charles Whig :n fetched the highest price (800 guineas), but Capta. Percy Whitaker gave 630 for a son of Sanso- vino of Mrs. J. P. Arkwright's ...

Published: Wednesday 18 October 1933
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 268 | Page: 9 | Tags: Photographs 

WITH SILENT FRIENDS: Spiritualism and the Unknown

... fury and murder. I suppose it is, as I wrote above, that whenever re ligion becomes a bee it becomes merely spiritual politics Whig against Tory, Tory against Socialism, as in the parliamentary world of thought and belief an excuse for persecution, if not ...

Published: Wednesday 25 October 1933
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2329 | Page: 14 | Tags: Photographs