Word: whig
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...money or silence money. And, among other, Ann Oldfield, the most beautiful actress of the time, gave him an annual allowance. Well aware that political favor was all important for his subsistence, ho made no qualms about forgetting his Tory sentiments, and often curried the favor of a potential Whig patron, at the negligible expense of self respect...
...Whig Party...
...idea is neither new nor stale. Oxford's Union is a hallowed, tail-and-cutaway institution including the one aura of heckling. Yale's Political Union and Princeton's Whig-Cliosophic Society have flourished for years, each have over 300 members. Attracted by their success, Columbia has recently taken up the idea...
...time he finished, he had delved deep into every aspect of history. He could read and all but memorize two books a day. He was said to have known everyone worth knowing and to have read everything worth reading. He was a familiar figure in the great Whig houses, at Windsor Castle and the papal court. He spoke English to his children, German to his wife, French to his sister-in-law, and Italian to his mother-in-law. But in none of these places and languages was Acton fully at home. His story, he said, was "the story...
What She Can't Do. Elizabeth cannot vote. Nor can she express any shading of political opinion in public. The last monarch who did that was George III, who in 1780 personally canvassed Windsor against the Whig candidate Keppel. Elizabeth cannot sit in the House of Commons, although the building is royal property. She addresses the opening session of each Parliament, but she cannot write her own speech. She cannot refuse to sign a bill of Parliament. She cannot appear as a witness in court, or rent property from her subjects...