... for Whigs exclusively. Most of these drank to excess. A drunk Whig is dominated even more than a sober Whig by devilish arrogance and rebellion. Around the dinner-table at Holland House any given night, therefore, we may see one or two sober Whigs like ...

... Mrs. Humphry Toto Ward, as you possibly assume, but a far lovelier breaker of hearts, Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots, whom some Whigs had been abusing, as their custom is. We recalled Swinburne's cry on reading the recent remark of an eminent graphologist. ...

... acquired by a Swiss connoisseur. Those were the boys (we thought) to put over a really convincing fairy-tale, unlike our native Whig historians and Min. of Information narks. Here we did the Min. of Inf. boys an injustice, perhaps, their German-corpses-in ...

... salting the sea-floor to encourage their dreams of unearned dough would be a typical bit of fairy mischief, like the rout of the Whigs at Prestonpans a few years later for how otherwise, cullies, could Sir J ohn Cope's boys have taken that woundy beating The ...

... hope all this doesn't bore you Our aim is to combine beauty of style with that rigid factual exactitude so detestable to the Whigs. You un-English rat, said the girl with heaving bosom. Puff puff A magistrate assuring a youthful financier that picking pockets ...

... whom we praise firmly on all possible occasions namely poor dear little Lucrezia Borgia, a blonde so foully slandered by the Whig chorus for nearly 450 years that even to-day stock brokers deem her a trollop. Not so her subjects of Ferrara, who loved her ...

... find the Pont Street Legend, embroidered, in dainty books by- gentlewomen called The Lure of Old Brompton. A little later the Whigs adopt it as history, the L.C.C. sticks a tablet on the fajade, and there we are. Tonic To drama-lovers temporarily stunned ...