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...surface. In an episode which comes near to being pure Mark Twain he almost got tied down to a pretty French girl, but he left her because if he stayed "it meant that God would have to start all over with some baby and train him up to manhood and see if he would have enough guts to carry the job through." But God's plan for Harry Patterson turned out to be more inscrutable than he had thought...
...captain of the fishing schooner Princess and constable of Panama City, Fla. Caswell. according to Lowell Thomas, whose commentary is dubbed into the silent film shot on board the Princess, conceived as a boy so trenchant a disdain for sharks, turtles, sawfish and other sea killers that upon reaching manhood he dedicated himself to slaughtering them singlehanded, using no other weapon than a fish knife...
...Majesty's Government for providing that Princess Elizabeth, 10, heir apparent to the Throne, shall come of age at 18. "If the duties to be performed are responsible duties, then the appropriate age is the age recognized in all other walks of life-the age of full manhood, of 21 or over," said Laborite Maxton...
Said Dr. Wilbur: "When every American family sees that the children in each generation are taught the truth about syphilis and gonorrhea, how to avoid them and what to do if infected, we shall no longer see our young manhood and womanhood their chief victims.'' Said Dr. Parran: "There must be secured through the medical and other professional groups additional experienced personnel to provide for the necessary diagnosis, treatment and follow-up of all infected persons...
...been left standing on the mantelpiece all night." Join the Marines (Republic) takes itself much less seriously than most of it? predecessors in the recruiting-poster school of cinema. Told with an absolute minimum of bugle-blowings, flag-hoistings and en masse exhibitions of clean-limbed young U. S. manhood, its raffish story of an ex-policeman's career in the employ...