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...Capri pants are casual women s slacks which reach to the lower calf. The term derives from capric acid, an organic acid (C10H20O2) found as a glyceride in goat fat. Capri pants earned their name in England in the 1920s when a gentleman remarked that a woman wearing ankle-length summer pants looked like a pudgy goat...
...during one of her ecstasies. Pregnant, she was stoned out of the temple, to bear her child on a mountainside, midwifed only by sympathetic goats. The years did not answer her agonizing question: How was her gentle idiot son begotten-by the one-armed soldier or in that capric caprice...
Bearing in mind the example of Iowa's Republican Senatorial nominee, independent Henry ("Himself") Field, both of Kansas' regular gubernatorial candidates are unpleasantly aware of the potency of a freak campaign equipped with a private radio station. Another who dreaded that capric Candidate Brinkley might win was Editor William Allen White of the Emporia Gazette. Fearfully he editorialized...
...many Kansans believe that Dr. John Richard Brinkley can energize them with capric gonads that the man last week declared he would run again for State Governor next election.* He had a radio station at Milford, Kan., from which he advertised himself and his medical ideas, most notably his goat-gland panacea. Kansas doctors got his medical license revoked. (He is appealing for re-instate-ment.) The Government forced him to sell his radio station, bought last week by an insurance company. (He quickly bought another in Mexico, which he will operate by remote control at Milford...
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