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Plenty of Nazi soldiers rather disliked the Nazi regime, scorned Göring for a capon, spoke of the whole hierarchy as a crowd of racketeers: but there was not one who did not love and adore Adolf Hitler...
...hours moving ten tons of wreckage to free a girl: they had had to use their bodies as struts to hold up the debris while tunneling. Said the King: "You have done grand work." Said George Pitman: "It's all in the day's work, Sir." Wally Capon, 54, raised a laugh by saying to the Queen: "Ever since the war started I have had my leg pulled about being an old man, but when a job like this comes along, Your Majesty, it is the old ones who can show the young ones what to do." Grimy...
...Tigers are definitely expected to be better this season, particularly since they have absorbed more thoroughly since they have absorbed more thoroughly the system of play of Franklin Capon, the coach who came from Michigan to take over the Tigers in 1939. They will be tall, as they usually are and certainly more skillful...
...loves game, sea food), the boys (steaks, chops), exotic visitors (an Abyssinian Coptic who ate no flesh was a problem), hires & fires servants (for economy the Roosevelts cut the Hoovers' 32 down to 23). Already she has drafted tentative menus for Their Majesties: for lunch, sweetbreads; for dinner, capon...
...aplomb, never lags in invention or languishes in wit. At bottom Falstaff may well be a superb showman, not expecting to be believed, only counting on being relished; not expecting to be acquitted, only certain of being pardoned. "He carves out his jokes," said Hazlitt, "as he would a capon or a haunch of venison, where there is cut and come again; and pours out upon them the oil of gladness. His tongue drops fatness, and in the chambers of his brain 'it snows of meat and drink...