... celebrate the victory* of Culloden by this cruel, fat, red Hanoverian lout and true precursor of Nazidom, whom some vile sneaking Whig or other was recently trying to whitewash may the Maulebec truss all such. To connect Cum berland's exploits in any way with ...

... astounded the valley of the Valira. Ask them in Puycerda who danced with im potent rage in the square, whispering Ratspawn Whig and Stinkard The Offensive Spirit is certainly essential in Commando training, but we think Alpinists while boasting should ...

... agreeable tipple would interest and surprise George IV., who won the battle of Waterloo on it, or thought he did. Official or Whig English history is such a mass of technicoloured folklore that we never understand why the historians dis miss George- IV. ...

... some three centuries ago, as the symbol of French tyranny from which that grim pansy William of Orange delivered us, so the Whigs allege. (The miserable French peasant starved and wore wooden shoes, the happy English peasant trod on leather and was full ...

... more unique exhibition of in dependence, perhaps, in countries where historians habitually use original documents, but as the Whigs who have cornered English history prefer to use their imagina tion anyway, it was just a normal happening. And perhaps it was ...

... in the room, and further, whether it was a National Liberal, a Simonite, a Wee Free, or a Lloyd- Georgite, or a common Grey Whig with the black markings round the muzzle (to be carefully distinguished from the almost extinct Black Hanoverian species, now ...

... Britannica, apparently, but as we rarely consult that massive work, on account of the suburban prejudices of many of the Whigs hired to write in it, we can't con firm this. If you think we have an un reasonable down on the Enc. Britt. boys, look up (e ...

... mostly drunk like the Vikings, but oddly enough unlike our Sturdy Saxon Forbears, of whom you have read in the official or Whig history books. Mr. Belloc's Mrs. Markham explains the Saxon position very nicely to Tommy and Mary in her famous chats on English ...

... According to the member who gave us the information, women sicken readily of the embraces of Whigs, complaining of the oily flavour. This complaint goes back to the Great Whig Double-Cross of 1688, when the rich betrayed James II. Ladies of quality then took to ...

... superstition, and serfdom. From the doom of wooden shoes William of Orange saved us, not to speak of his rouged and dainty Whig mignons. (Wooden shoes were also worn at this period by Dutchmen and Scandinavians, and clogs by the English of the North, ...

... as warming-pans and dungforks. All these fragrant old customs date from the Glorious Revolution and were introduced by the Whigs. Chinoiserie Only the Chinese can make tea, an authority recently remarked, thinking doubtless of the clear pale golden liquid ...

... disappointed. Those were the days, I said, hoping to wean Mrs. Whinebite from Shakespeare. I wish I 'd been alive then. All those Whig hostesses and their lovers. Really, Henrietta said Mrs. Savernack. There 's a dark side to Henrietta's character, said Dan ...