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After citing the notorious inconsistency of Editor White in estimating public char acters, Nominee Robinson said: "Let me tell you what Mr. White has said. ... He has described Herbert Hoover as a "fat, pudgy capon sitting on eggs...
...Emporia, Editor White expostulated : "If he can cite the date and place where I declared that any capon ever sat on eggs I will give the Democratic Campaign Committee a thousand dollars. Poor as I am at arithmetic I can figure there is some thing biologically wrong about a capon sitting on eggs...
...Republican shambles, he [Mr. Hoover] is vaguely reminiscent of a plump and timorous capon, fluttering anxiously on the outskirts of a free-for-all cockfight...
...with the sturdiest. After four years he went home to Cazenovia, rich and restless; then to Milwaukee, where? he went into pork packing with John Plankington, after whom the Plankington Hotel there was named, It's bartenders used to be adept at mixed drinks; its present chef prepares a capon just a little less appetizingly than does the chef of the Winthrop Hotel at Tacoma, Wash...
...Ripley Jr. '14 W. M. McKim '16, and H. C. MacDuffie '14. Among the other speakers will be D. C. Wilbur and V. E. Parmenter, Graduates of Dartmouth. Other names included in the list are H. E. Horn, import Manager of Lowney's Chocolates, R. B. Capon of Whittemore Bros., H. A. Sweetser, district manager of the United States Chamber of Commerce, and E. O. Hatch of the Carr Fastener...