... formula. Line Chaps interested (purely non-politically) in Whigs have probably heard of the Whig Line, a deeply-incised furrow from nose- wings to jaw, acquired by all women married to Whigs, and caused by tight compression of the lips while listening ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... put up to Disraeli. How about trainin' a lot of spankin' gees for snortin' at Whigs Might break their spirit, mightn't it Rubbish, an aunt of mine goes round snortin' at Whigs all day long and she 's in roarin' condition. You mean Lady Emily That 's the ...

... 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 ...

... been the subject of bitter controversy among historians, and it was only natural that he should suffer at the hands of the Whig historians in particular Macaulay, Gardiner and Green all had harsh things to say about the Martyr King. That Charles was at ...

... 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 ...

... Dean spent his life working not for his master-mariner's ticket but for that rich bishopric of which his Whig employers ultimately cheated him (as Whigs will), we can't think where he got it. Hardly from a few awful crossings of the Irish Channel Hardly from ...

... to us years ago Beware of anyone who begins a sentence with a frank expression and the words The fact is He is undoubtedly a Whig and a liar, of the school of Froude, Kingsley and Borrow. Loss Judging by the fussy embarrassment of the Press boys over coming ...