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The Nation is America's Longest Running Weekly Magazine.

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• ...In these gatherings of the Primrose League, too, the neophytes are, as usual..
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• ...By establishing ''Habitations,'' or clubs, all over the country, at which shopkeepers, or tenant farmers, or country lawyers can take afternoon tea, or play lawn tennis with the daughters of Earls, and compare notes of work in a common cause with Duchesses, for the defence of religion, morality, and the integrity of the empire again at Gladstone and ''the Lad's,'' they have brought to bear on politics a social lever of extraordinary efficacy...
• ...the Imperial Institute in May, of which the better class of Englishmen were much ashamed, has been excused by ascribing it to the overzealous of the Primrose-Leaguers from the Kensington ''detached'' and ''semi-detached'' villas, who felt that in the presence of the monster they must show themselves not unworthy of the exalted society to which, they now, in a manner, belonged...
• ...The social hostility to him has been greatly stimulated by the Primrose League, an organization managed mainly by women of the upper class, of which one hears comparatively little in the newspapers, but which has done excellent propagandist work for the Conservatives...

• ...I do not think any contrivance in English history for the support of a party can equal what is known here as ''The Primrose League...
• ...That is, a mistake about the Queen's meaning, when she laid primroses on his tomb, and said, ''They were his favourite flower'' (Prince Albert's), associated the flower in the popular mind with Disraeli, to such a degree that, on his birthday, the shrewd, cynical Hebrew countenance of his statue in Westminster is comically covered with wreaths of it...
• ...So the ''Primrose League'' was really founded on his grave...
• ...When, during the Home Rule agitation, it was determined to bring this new force into play in politics, it was called the ''Primrose League,'' and local ''Habitations,'' or clubs, were established all over the country, to which any one might belong who was opposed to Home Rule and admired Lord Salisbury and Mr...

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