make capital of
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Instead, some producers have deplorably chosen to make capital of their "outrageous exploits."
From Time Magazine Archive
Last week as Count Csaky kept silent, opposition parties tried to make capital of Hungary's alarm, to smoke Count Csaky out.
From Time Magazine Archive
Because publishers have tried to make capital of books that he is reported to enjoy, President Roosevelt refuses to discuss what he reads, let alone what he likes to read.
From Time Magazine Archive
Thus radio Berlin tried to make capital of the news that the Coughlinite weekly Social Justice had been barred from the U.S. mails.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Ah, well, then," said I, "like other great writers, I shall make capital of my own sins, and treat of the second little family fox; and his name is—"
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 89, March, 1865 by Various
