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...coronation (1910) Dr. Dawson continued with greater prestige as his personal physician. The royal family frequently had great difficulty disciplining their heir, whom they familiarly still call David but whom subjects-apparent call Edward. At such times the King would call on Dr. Dawson to take the youngster in hand. Prince Edward always obeyed the doctor. He still is amenable, having voluntarily appointed Dr. Dawson his personal physician seven years ago. The Prince pays Dr. Dawson ?500 a year to keep him well, the King the same amount. However, Dr. Dawson received ?10,000 extra, plus honors for his attendance...
Personally attractive for his 41 years, virile, an orator comparable to Kerensky, Trotzky or Mussolini, Demagog Hitler soon reclaimed his old position. To his cause have flocked many an adoring Jungfraulein and hot-blooded youngster. The latter he has organized into clean-up gangs called "storm squads," comparable to the Communist "Red Front Squads." So closely do the Fascist tenets resemble those of Communism that many of his disciples are onetime Communists, grown weary of their cabal's inactivity...
Will James has had his zeniths and his nadirs. When still a youngster he helped steal cattle on the quiet and once served a penitentiary sentence therefor. A shooting scrape once put him into a log prison of the Northwest Mounted Police. Once he was in the movies. That, says he, was a tough job. Many were the falls he took, some by order, some not; many the uncomfortable costumes (the worst a suit of armor) in which he fell. During the War he never got overseas, but he had a lot of fun on a horse, after his superior...
...courier, rushing packets of pictures to be put aboard trains at Grand Central Terminal, was accosted by a breathless, officious youngster. "Hey, wait! The office made a mistake?let's see your bundle. Yeh?they put two in for the Hartford Courant instead of one. Okay, I'll take the extra one back to the office. S'long...
...Houston, Texas, W. H. Strebeck. barber, vaunts: "I'll match my kid against any other youngster his age for intelligence." His "kid" Edwin, 2 years, 7 months, has been smoking three big cigars a day since...