Word: whig
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Disraeli once observed that the nearest thing to a Tory in disguise was a Whig in office. In the debate on Empire foreign policy in the House of Commons last week, it was just as hard to tell the difference between the new socialists in office and the old Tories in opposition...
Meanwhile the Kingston, Ont. Whig-Standard has posed some fine questions. Exactly what is a horror, program-one capable of inspiring horror? Then will that keep off the air dramatizations of the tales of Edgar Allan Poe? Richard III? Othello? Macbeth...
...Johnson wrote poems, blurbs, biographical notes, prize contests, a weekly column ("The Rambler") for the Gentleman's Magazine. He also became one of Britain's first Parliamentary reporters. Lazy and arrogant, he soon began composing Honorable Members' speeches entirely out of his own head ? taking cars "that the Whig dogs should not have the best of it." When a friend exclaimed that Prime Minister Pitt's latest speech was the best one that he had ever read, Johnson replied: "I wrote [it] in a garret in Exeter Street." Ten years before the birth of Noah Webster, Johnson went...
Said Wendell Willkie at Ripon : the Republican party first came into power because in the Whig party before it "men sought to trim and hedge rather than to face the dangers, or talked trivialities, remaining silent on the basic issues, hoping thereby to avoid offending divergent elements. ... A certain cynicism characterized the politics of the day - a cynicism which has had its parallel in our own time...
...strong' president between Jackson and Lincoln." He had "guts," "integrity," could not be "brought to heel." But he was also "pompous," "suspicious," "secretive," "humorless," "vindictive." He believed that "wisdom and patriotism were Democratic monopolies." He made an effort to be generous, sometimes confided to his diary: "Although a Whig he seems a gentleman...