Word: whig
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...debate, the subject of which has not yet been disclosed, is to be staged between the Harvard and Princeton debating groups in Whig Hall...
...behalf of "our beloved American fellow subjects." Result: he was fined ?200 and clapped into King's Bench prison for a year. The kindness of his Tory gaolers in permitting him to dine out once a week at the nearby Dog & Duck tavern only served to increase Whig Tooke's bitterness against them; he blamed the gout from which he suffered all the last years of his life on the claret drunk on these outings...
...days of 15th Century Master Humfrey Figet down to the gayer days of the lovely Shelmerdine Parsley-Ffidgett (who was painted in the buff by Modigliani and drowned bathing at Cap d'Antibes one midnight) will know pretty well all there is to know about the average Whig county family...
...place between 1850 and 1860. A subtle and healing compromise had been effected in 1850; yet year by year, whether through fate or human folly, it slowly disintegrated. The best men watched in anguish but could not halt the ruin. In the name of principles and distinctive tenets the Whig Party was ground to bits...Finally, the same 'principles' broke the Democratic party, and the Union of 1789 perished...