Word: whig
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Story. Percy Bysshe Shelley, scion of a rich Whig family, first went to Eton. He was "exceptionally beautiful, with brilliant blue eyes, dark curling hair and a delicate complexion." The brutal Vita Etonica shocked his sensitive mind and he was glad to move on to the freedom of Oxford...
...Mail was founded in 1869. Some ten years later it was consolidated with The Evening Express (founded in 1836 as a Whig paper absorbing The Daily Advertiser). Now another consolidation makes it into The Telegram and Evening Mail...