Word: capons
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When ointment containing male sex hormones is rubbed into the comb of a capon, the listless, bedraggled cock gradually turns into a lusty, strutting rooster. Reason; the hormones are absorbed into his bloodstream. When Dr. George L. Foss of the Royal Infirmary at Bristol, England learned that this direct application of hormones to a capon's comb is 200 times more effective than injections, he decided last summer to try it on impotent...
...world folklore had plenty of meaning. The gesture, said Interpreter D'Agrossa, was "what we call cornuto." It was an ancient custom to cut the spurs off castrated cocks and graft them to the birds' heads, where they grew as horns. Since the horned capon was a strutting definition of sexual inadequacy, its horns became a symbol of cuckoldry. The sign of the horns, he said, should not be confused with the somewhat similar gesture of defense against the evil eye (index and little finger pointing parallel...
...stand to cap Mrs. Marotta's case walked her two innocent-looking daughters by Catanzaro, Geraldine, 18, and Isabel, 16. Their testimony made old Giacomo seem somewhat less a capon. They said they had entered their mother's kitchen one night in 1934, had found Negro Maid Carrie Cooper sitting in Stepfather Giacomo's lap. He was feeding her chocolate pudding...
...dinner given him annually by the National Press Club went Franklin Roosevelt last week. Last year at this dinner the President was poisoned by bad capon, but this year the food was as excellent as the wine (Lanson 1928). In deference to his philately, a lantern-slide performance was staged to show a new series of stamps commemorating high moments
...Victory Dinner at Newark, N. J.-best described the spirit of the occasion when he wrote that the dinners were "backed by a big enough election triumph to justify serving stewed elephants." The 1,300 Mayflower diners ate their way in triumph through terrapin soup, pompano, breast of capon, coupe nougat quarante-six (Maine & Vermont excepted). But when Franklin Roosevelt rose and began to speak, the levity ended. His first few words were spoken with his most studied earnestness. He was addressing the electorate far more than his Party, and the listeners in his presence soon toned down their convivial...