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...Gable, Shirley Temple, William Powell, Wallace Beery, George Arliss and Myrna Loy, in that order. Women's favorites were Shirley Temple, Robert Taylor, Clark Gable, Norma Shearer, Jeanette MacDonald, Greta Garbo. More surprising was the survey's answer to the question about the double feature, long a thorn in the side of the industry which thinks the public likes...
...hard-fought game which resolved into a goalies' battle, the Freshmen were turned back by the Brown Freshmen 1-0. The only score of the game came early in the fourth period. Chief thorn in the Yardling side was Barney, the Brown net-minder...
...that darned shoelace that breaks at just the wrong moment, as you are about to dash into breakfast before the doors close, or your roommate who has absconded with the morning paper, there always seems to be some petty thing that takes the joy out of life. The latest thorn in the side of tranquillity is the Union's refusal to let Freshmen take fruit out of the dining halls with them...
...matter how much of a thorn in the flesh of the G.O.P. potentates the wiry mayor may be--and his attacks on the capitalists and the ultiities and his active work in the Roosevelt cause are enough to turn the long-suffering Republican's affections to other directions, if the G.O.P. partisans deny him their support this year they will be cutting off their noses to spite their face. For Mayor LaGuardia has given the city its first taste of honest government since the days of Mayor Mitchell before the War. And any cessation of support for the Fusion nominee...
Capitulations, the sharpest thorn in Egypt's flesh, are partly fiscal, partly juridical. Foreigners in Egypt are not forced to pay taxes to the Egyptian Government; foreigners involved in criminal cases go before their own consular courts, while civil cases go before mixed courts on which foreign representatives sit. Specially oppressive to Egypt are the fiscal capitulations because more than $12,000,000,000 of foreign money is invested in that country, and owing to tax immunities the Egyptian Government is deprived of what it considered a large legitimate income. The U. S. has nearly $15,000,000 invested...