Capra

[ kap-ruh ]

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Capra

/ ˈkæprə /

CapraFrank18961992MUSItalianFILMS AND TV: director Frank. 1896–1992, US film director born in Italy. His films include It Happened One Night (1934), It's a Wonderful Life (1946), and several propaganda films during World War II.

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On the day of the AFI dinner, Hitchcock receives a wire from Frank Capra, who is in Palm Springs.

Capra is sorry he can't attend but wants both Hitch and Alma to know he is thinking of them.

Capra rushed on stage as the spotlight searched for Lloyd, the real victor.

Mr. Capra and Mr. Lloyd both thought that host Will Rogers was referring to them when he said, “Come on up and get it Frank!”

The oldest domesticated goats seem to be descended from the Bezoar goat (Capra ægagrus), from the mountains of southwestern Asia.

Standing, as it does, beside a specimen of Capra Sibirica, it looks not much bigger than some of the Jumnapari goats.

Some naturalists do not separate this from Capra, but the majority do on the following characteristics, viz.

At daybreak it had advanced only six leagues, and was still between the islands of Elba and Capra.

We had long wished to find a nest of O. capra, and early in September fortune favored us.

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