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...supervise Freshman affairs may be detected a dangerous effort not only to analyze indifference but actually to dispel it. The choice of class organization as a target for experimentation was wisely made, as the problem of getting out enough votes to make class elections valid has been a constant thorn in the sides of successive election committees, who have attacked the difficulty without stopping to find out why it exists...
...Louisville, a newspaper reporter discovered a 14-year-old horse, ill-fed, bony, windbroken, drawing a peddler's ramshackle cart, recognized the steed as Hawthorne, 12 years ago a champion two-year-old on Churchill Downs (Louisville), remembered that Hawthorne's mother was White Thorn, that White Thorn was grandmother of Epinard, crack French stallion now invading the U. S., deduced that old horse Hawthorne must be "Epinard's uncle...
...Rector of St. Mark's-in-the-Bouwerie, Manhattan, thorn-in-the-flesh of William T. Manning, Bishop...
This genial little Frenchman from the Midi goes where he likes, even into Soviet Russia, says what he thinks, does as he pleases. He is a thorn in the side of the Quai d'Orsay...
...principal thorn in Japanese flesh is the massacre (in 1920) of Japanese at Nikolaievsk in Russia. Japan demanded an apology and indemnities. The Soviet Government does not mind apologizing, but it is positively recalcitrant over paying an indemnity...