... curious. Probably the Island Kace was too snamea ana angry over George I. and his two principal mis tresses, a gift, from the Whigs, to think about jokes. The fatter of these rapacious girls, indeed, got in wrong with the hostile Piccadilly mob right away ...

... suspect prigs who decry him of being ministers of the Devil. Another friend of ours, also a sailor, is James II, whom the Whigs still vilely slander. If you 've anything Whiggish to say against james, give your name to Parker in the entrance-lobby and ...

... estab lished as an example to all. Three royal children have already been born the succession to the Throne is assured. The Whigs and the Tories are, at any rate, temporarily, refraining from wrangles and dissensions the slave trade has been abolished England ...

... their resurrection seems near, and to my sorrow I find them divided and wrangling as the dawn heralds zero hour. How like the Whigs, how like the Liberals As in the 1820's they offered a gift to old Lord Liver pool, so now they are prepared, it seems, leaderless ...

... nowa days, and a Tory (Conservative) surgeon will probably operate, if asked, on a Whig (Liberal) patient, despite the traditional reek of warm oil which attaches to Whigs, open or closed. Simonite Liberals claim incident ally to smell of Parma violets ...

... respected by his troops, suspected of at least two murders, including that of his valet, and even worse crimes, the terror of the Whigs, an all-round bashibazouk, made himself so unpopular with the Island Race that when Victoria came to the throne and the crown ...

... boiled down for the oil, or whatnot. There was never any Whig-shortage, because Whigs spawn so freely. Footnote Tory M.P.s of the same mid-Victorian period, hard men to hounds, often provided leading Whig hostesses with a similar problem by their after-dinner ...

... i One Thing and Another By D. B. Wyndham Lewis ALWAYS anxious to be fair to the Whigs, we heartily agreed with a chap who remarked recently that the sandwich, their noblest invention, is on the whole more beneficial to mankind than the aeroplane, since ...

... National Savings posters on the Nelson Column, demand ing their removal, but (oddly enough) not that of the Column itself. Only a Whig, a member of the Arts Club was telling us, could conceive and erect, in that small overcrowded square, such a disproportionate ...

... character or other as a ftinking Whig, or even a very vile and ftinking Whig. This refers to the smell already mentioned, peculiar to Whigs (Tories smell of verbena). We know a man whose nose can tell him at once when a Whig has been in a drawipg-room. You ...

... i I I). B. WYJDBAI LEWIS HENCEFORTH, instead of roaring to its Maker, in a fine redfaced full-periwigged Hanoverian-Whig outburst, to scatter and confound its enemies and frustrate their knavish tricks, the Race will take a less violent line, we note ...

... as a Jacobite rebel after the '15, Wogan escaped from Newgate to be sent to Silesia by James III the Old Pretender to you Whigs) to sue in James's behalf for the hand of lovely Princess Clementina Sobieski. To checkmate this the Emperor placed Clemen ...