... gathered, a last- moment plot hatched by the more desperate Fellows, and closely resembling the bogus Warming-Pan Plot which the Whigs invented to destroy the Stuart Succession some 300 years ago. A stuffed baby hippopotamus acquired from the Toy Department ...

... Theatre and saw two parties of women in opposite boxes. I found they were patched differently some spotted on the right side (Whig), some on the left (Tory). By 1742, the injurious ingredients used in the manufacture of cosmetics was causing con cern. So ...

... seems to us not only a very natural Liberal cultus, sprung from That Awful Repres sion, but the missing explanation of all Whig history, of Froude's worship of Henry VIII and Carlyle's worship of Frederick the Great. Does this bore you Vety well, a song ...

... further with a tastefully engraved skull and crossbones to remind the rich that they are not (as they think) immortal. The Whigs stopped all this nonsense in 1688, unless we err. As for sundials, nervous and wealthy but important chaps even today are often ...

... that they were bound to inspire detraction and misrepre sentation. Unfashionable virtues always irritate. And the handful of Whigs who in Sheridan's latter days fought consistently and genuinely for social reform were never much encouraged by the Party's ...

... Kemsley's dance which he gave for one of his grandchildren at Dropmore which in the eighteenth century was, with Stowe, the great Whig stronghold of the Grenville clan was, to my mind, one of the most attractive parties I had ever been to, whether before or ...

... Alley, off Cornhill, the Army officers to The Tiltyard, off Whitehall. There were special houses, like the St. James's, for Whigs and, for their Tory oppo nents, The Cocoa Tree and Whites in St. James's Street. There were Coffee Houses for Jews, for actors ...

... Middle Ages the artist's patron was the Church in Tudor and Stuart times, the monarchy in the eighteenth century the great Whig aristocracy in the nineteenth and early twentieth, the new middle classes. To-day, oil companies and hotels, London Transport ...

... Banquets in magnificence and expense. In fact it proved to be the swan song of these functions and its cost so terrified the Whig politicians that it was disallowed for the Coronation of William IV and never resumed. In the more restrained and self-controlled ...

... 1798, during the Napoleonic Wars, William Pitt the Younger was so infuriated by the near-Quisling attitude of Tierney, the Whig leader, that they fought a duel on a Saturday afternoon on Putney Heath, before a crowd of 2000 people, with the Speaker in ...

... Garden early in the I760's. With illustrations by JACK MATTHEW. But was he not John Montagu, fourth Earl of Sandwich, notorious Whig-hater, astute politician, and among other exalted offices he had held First Lord of the Admiralty True, he was still legally ...

... instruments of his vengeance. And whatever the facts of his conversion Lord Grange was certainly living in London as a staunch Whig when his wife died in 1749 in her sixty-fifth year. End CfHE was lodged in the croft of an old moss- troqper who forbade even ...