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... every war vessel in the American fleet. But he was equally omniscient concerning (for example) the family histories of the Whig families of Reform Bill days. To me it is a matter of personal regret that that living encyclopaedia, whose pages were so. ...
... period, full of hypocrisies and befogging draws. True, she confined smok ing to the cellars, prayed for the damnation of the Whigs and ruled everyone with a rod of iron but, when her own granddaughter, Viki, genuinely fell in love with a plain village organist ...
... part in pronunciation: not to mention inherited traditions (as for example those tradi tions of pronunciation handed down in Whig families). And these big factors the committee apparently neglects. Mr. Frank Rutter, it seemed to me, placed it in a pretty ...
... National Govern ment. THE LATE LORD FITZ- MAURICE The Whig tradition, of which Bowood and Lansdowne House were famous cradles, died hard. Both the late Lord Lansdowne and his brother, Lord Edmond, were Whigs at heart. They were liberal-minded and had the courtesy ...
... on the 12th,. or to have heir grouse if they cannot. A .hundred years ago Lady Grey and .ady Salisbury and the rest of al he Whig and Tory hostesses were £,is a matter of course still giving .jfBies in mid-August. August 15 ij/aslquite a normal date for ...
... acting in the spacious days. They take one back straight into the heart of the age of Privilege and the great days of the Whigs. As little boys at Bess- borough, they used to wake Mr. Creevey, that welcome guest, with a present of flowers, and Mr. Creevey ...
... all depends as much on culture as on diplomacy. For culture is a cure and diplomacy but a remedy for all our ills. A great Whig Duchess invited her late husband's friends to the funeral and added Bring your gun, whoever dies, the pheasants must be shot ...
... treaties of I Europe over two centuries. Oil aB word as impossible as serviette, orB gurl, or town in the dictionary of the Whig Aristocracy. IN THE NAME OF THE LEAGUE The bolstering-up of theB League of Nations has been responsible for more hypocrisy ...