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...first Whig was the devil!" exclaimed Dr. Samuel Johnson in 1778. The good Tory doctor had reason to be vehement, for nothing like the Whig aristocracy had existed in England before. Whig families owned most of the land, dwelt in "homes with 60 bedrooms," gambled away whole fortunes in a night, and lived and governed England with "an animal recklessness at once terrifying and exhilarating." Whig men believed that chastity was a dangerous thing; it gave a man the gout, they said. Fortunately, Whig women did their best to keep the boys gout-free...
William Lamb, Second Viscount Melbourne, was England's last big Whig. In 1939 Lord David Cecil wrote the first part of Lamb's tale, The Young Melbourne, a biography that rated as one of the finest of the decade. Now Author Cecil has finished the job by carrying his story up to Melbourne's death in 1848. The complete book is superb...
...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...