Word: whig
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Perhaps no modern writer has approximated the simplicity of Lord Macaulay, the Whig historian of England, in his famous analysis of those two contending forces which have governed and disputed alternately since the beginning of democratic processes...
Princeton officials used the same arguments advanced by Jerome D. Greene, '96, Secretary to the Corporation, and later affirmed by the President and Fellows, in its refusal to allow the Whig-Cliosophic Society to sponsor a talk by Browder...
When naive Alexandrina Victoria became Queen of England in 1837, she inherited as Prime Minister a fine worldly Whig: William Lamb, Lord Melbourne. For four years, he, the representative of a passing era, patiently tutored the young Queen who was to play the title role in a new age. But the same man had had another life, as William Lamb, second son of worldlywise, domineering Lady Melbourne. As William Lamb, he was the husband of Byron's mistress, Caroline Lamb, and was by all odds the most urbane of the many cuckolds whom George Gordon Lord Byron left...
Beard's great-grandfather was a Federalist, his grandfather a Whig and rebel Quaker who ran "a one-man church" and speculated in Western lands; his father was a "copper-riveted, rock-ribbed, Mark Hanna, true-blue" Republican who prospered as building contractor, ran a bank, read the classics, raised his family on a farm to develop their backbone. At 18 Charles Beard owned a country weekly, the graduation gift of his father, ran it at a profit for four years. At Methodist DePauw College his extracurricular activities included reporting for a Republican newspaper, electioneering for a Republican Senator...
Princeton's Grecian Whig Hall was the scene Saturday afternoon of the final plenary session of the fourth annual H-Y-P Conference on Public Affairs, as undergraduate leaders summed up before 125 delegates the round table discussions of the previous two days...