... second turned Newcome's into an extremely fashionable seminary for the sons of noblemen and gentlemen of (for the most part) Whig persuasion one of the earlier Newcomes had been tutor to Charles Fox and brought the numbers of the school up to eighty or ...

... innocent, which can't be said for everything dons do in their spare time, such as intriguing, knifing each other, writing Whig history, secret drinking, and so forth. Naturally this observation doesn't apply to the Public Orator or his deputy, who has ...

... Whiggish flavour of the cold game pie and scrambled eggs, the Whiggish sizzling of the urn, the untimely, half-aired atmosphere of Whig- gery and priggery faugh In that age practically everybody of note had a fearful liver and devoured enormous breakfasts (at ...

... of the Black Hole from the school-books we can't see much reasonable objection. It is mainly rhetoric, like 75 per cent, of Whig history, or folklore, and its accuracy has frequently been challenged by modern Hindu scholars, one of whom, a mathematician ...

... recollect. Many of them derive from Big Business and the legal or liberal professions, some are ex- journalists, many have studied Whig history, and there may even be an ex-Press agent or two among them, all accustomed to brisk modern ethical stan dards. You ...

... great power gabble generally at 125-150-^we 've timed one at a film conference and a dear friend of ours, though a stinking Whig, has often done 215 a minute while trying to persuade a dazed electorate to give him 600 a year. Unhappily the man he has ...

... for a mere bun these days O'IIIIIHI 1 1 11 1 iii wi 1 1 1 1 1| fn rinuiwe fj'itiKHun- The Ravages of Time Continued -popular Whig history, seemed to be intoxi cating the citizenry slightly more than the sentimental, which charms us more and you That habit ...

... per versions of historical fact, and by the Great Horn Spoon of Rocamadour, Miss Sayers would have her work cut out. Official Whig folklore has sunk so deep for generations into the Island consciousness that to try to tell the Race the full honest truth ...

... cultivation at all he knows how much of the history (for example) he has to read over again is objective truth, and how much of it Whig flubdub. He can pat or stroke tobacconists' blonde daughters, according to academic custom, without causing his kind relations ...

... invade and rule England if he takes the trouble. The gnome Goebbels's history being about on a par with that of our own little Whig pedants he, too, babbles as if Harold's troops were a national force the intelligent French, at least, will naturally remain ...

... the inner circle of the Whigs and a pleasant post in the Civil Service, which he held for about forty years and from which he drew a good salary. My grandmother had been the young and lovely widow of the eldest son of a great Whig nobleman, and she, too ...

... there was no shortage of food. The break with France, for ever the source of fashions, left fashionable England a little dull. Whig elegants went dashing over to Paris, as soon as the Peace of Amiens was declared, to admire the Empire modes which, in their ...