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A LONDON NEWSLETTER

... they survived time and chances, 9 will survive now. Fie gave us antfjiB mortal picture of life and times in j a1 aristocratic Whig circle of Reform! me. days he wrote a page of history elm-.' the Hundred Days. Our knowledge] 1 Wellington is incomplete without ...

Published: Saturday 12 February 1938
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2947 | Page: 5 | Tags: Photographs 

Rapier on Racing: A Crowded Week--Free Fare a Champion--Royal Mail shows his Paces--Lingfield Details--Newbury ..

... opposition and won as he liked by fifteen lengths. Jack Anthony was apparently keen on the chances of the sluggish Mask and Whig, who was backed by some optimists, as was Frank Hartigan's charge, Honquan. I could not see, however, how anything could have ...

A LONDON NEWSLETTER

... pending negotiations; if they said less and perhaps reflected more. If ever there was a time for England to be governed from a Whig Country House, it is to-day. D'ANNUNZIO.-- -..hat shall I say of Gabriele D'Annunz o? The Prince of Monte Nevoso must of course ...

Published: Saturday 12 March 1938
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2684 | Page: 5 | Tags: Photographs 

Rapier on Racing

... to thank the executive for their watering when winning by a length from Rime Tout, and that disappointing hurdler Mask and Whig. Carlisle carried top weight of 9 st., or, in my estimation, about 8 lb. more than he would have been asked to do before Newbury ...

Standing By: One Thing and Another

... double burgage, of infangtheofe and outfangtheofe, of ban and arriere-ban, or of the Droit du Seigneur, of which the romantic Whig history boys are so lewdly fond. Pro bably these are all thrown in.) After the National Anthem we left, wondering chiefly what ...

Published: Wednesday 04 May 1938
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1711 | Page: 9 | Tags: Photographs 

And the World said

... boring point, and there has been too much -sing ling out of debutantes in a futile effort to build another Gelli- brand, another Whig- ham. This failure proves again that b e a u t i es (not in- e v 1 ta my beautiful) are born not built; groomed for stardom ...

Published: Wednesday 20 July 1938
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2512 | Page: 6 | Tags: Photographs 

THE DOOM OF NEVILL'S COURT

... clergyman, the Rev. Henry Sacheverell, preached a sermon before the Lord Mayor at St. Paul's, in which he held to ridicule the Whig party which was then in power and preached passive obedience to the throne. As a result, he was tried by impeachment and suspended ...

Published: Saturday 23 July 1938
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1085 | Page: 34 | Tags: Photographs 

The Passing Hour: Comments and Asides

... dirtiest political intrigue in English political history the campaign of Queen Anne and the Tories against Marlborough and the Whigs. By the end of 1709 the genius of the Duke had beaten France to the ground, and even as late as 1711 he was still winning all ...

Published: Wednesday 07 September 1938
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1611 | Page: 7 | Tags: Photographs 

THE FOOD OF LOVE.: A MUSIC ARTICLE BY FRANCIS TOYE; MUNICH AND MUSIC

... ARTICLE BY FRANCIS TOYE. MUNICH AND MUSIC. ANYBODY who has been brought up on the orthodox histories of Eng land, written by the Whig historians of the Victorian era, must have been struck by the almost complete absence of any reference to music in their works ...

Published: Wednesday 12 October 1938
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1086 | Page: 40 | Tags: Photographs 

A LONDON NEWSLETTER

... age, was the second wife of the 2nd Earl Granville, son of that Lord Granville Leveson Gower who figures so largely in famous Whig memoirs and survives so vividly in his correspondence with Lady Bessborough. The 2nd Earl, who was a Victorian statesman and ...

Published: Saturday 26 November 1938
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3061 | Page: 7 | Tags: Photographs