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Onetime Prime Minister David Lloyd George was from an early date "a thorn in the King's side." The King had frequently to complain of one of Mr. George's speeches, according to Sir Sidney, and prevailed upon the late Prime Minister Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman on one occasion to admonish the little Welshman to "avoid such a tone in future...
Most people associate the battle of Bosworth Field with Richard III's offer to barter his kingdom for a lone horse. As a matter of fact, he lest his kingdom anyway, and Henry Richmond, who picked up the crown from a thorn bush and became Henry VII of England was the man who started Britain on the road to the glory and success of the Elizabethan...
...close friend and co-worker of Mrs. Mary Baker Glover Eddy, has been a renegade, a pariah. In 1909 they expelled her from their church, because they, considered her extensions of their Leader's teachings subversive to those theories. Since then she has been a many-barbed thorn in their flesh, and lately, since radio broadcasting has become an agency of heterodox persuasiveness, she has operated WHAP from Manhattan* to their vexation...
Naturally a party where everyone must first be inoculated and then constantly bear in mind the possibility of ptomaine poisoning is not ideal, or apt to be largely attended. "Colonel Fiske," rapped Edwin W. Thorn, Parisian Legion official, "has made statements both absolutely and profoundly ridiculous, if he has been correctly quoted. . . The public water supply of Paris is one of the purest in the world. . . There is no more need for inoculation, and no more danger of ptomaine poison in Paris than at home...
Farm Relief. The McNary-Haugen bill (TIME, Feb. 14), for three years a thorn in the side of Congress, was put through both houses by a defiant farm bloc which crushed the Administration cohorts...