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...health-guarding routine which he follows when in Washington-up at 7 o'clock to be pummelled by a strong Swedish masseur; breakfast of hard-toasted bran bread-(oh, how different from the oranges, beefsteaks and sugary coffee which he used to swallow when he was a 332-pounder in the White House and when he said, "Things are in a sad state of affairs when a man can't even call his gizzard his own!") Until 11:30, he reads and dictates in his study; then by motor to the Capitol, to sit from...
George V, King & Emperor, cried last week, "I hit it!" His Majesty had just fired, during maneuvers of the Royal Tank Corps, a three pounder tank gun and the projectile had sped true to the bull's eye of the target. As everyone knows, George V rates as one of the half dozen best sporting shots in England...
Even in France one does not take this genial 250-pounder seriously--no one, that is, except the police, who have learned from bitter experience that behind this gentleman's grand opera gestures there beats a brain capable of engineering even the most subtle of prison breaks...
...Kestrel, based at New London, when we received orders to proceed to Block Island. There we carried the Commandant of the Second Naval District, Captain Bryan (?), out to the Texas which was surprisingly close to the shore. For the next few days, armed with our "formidable" Three-Pounder, we patrolled the waters-or, as an Army friend put it, we "kept ourselves safe for democracy...
...other was a 196-pounder of Lithuanian descent, Jack Sharkey,* aged 25. Heavily good-looking, bright-eyed, garrulous, he was to prove himself formidable enough to deserve a chance at overpowering the man that whipped Dempsey last autumn, World's Champion Gene Tunney...