Word: fodder
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Just who would be particularly interested in this book, we can't imagine . . . unless it's the shy deb who could memorize it for conversational fodder or the aspiring Mama who would like to have her daughter escorted by a direct descendant of John Jacob Astor. Some of the data has a really whimsical touch . . . the Cuban boy at Princeton with "Distinguished characteristic of mother's family-nobility" . . . the Harvard man who claims "Profession most traditional in mother's family-advertising" . . . "gun manufacturing" and "coal operator" are listed as the professions most traditional in two Yale men's families...
...large body of fodder surrounded entirely by politicians...
Franco's army contains few Spaniards, many hired Moorish cut throats, drafted Italian and German cannon fodder. Lee's army was as native to its soil as the Swanee River...
...wolf is at the door for the baseball managerial staff with only one Freshman having turned up for the 1941 competition. Since a competition by definition means more than one candidate, an urgent appeal was forthcoming from Varsity manager Gray Thoron '38 for more Yardling managerial fodder. Aspirants are asked to report to the Dillon Field House at 2:15 today. The winner of the spring contest will receive his numerals...
Early last week Su Lin, first captive giant panda ever brought to the U. S., added oak twigs to her diet in Chicago's Brookfield Zoo. Unaccustomed to such rugged fodder, Su Lin caught a twig in her throat. Same day the twig was removed, but Su Lin fell into a decline, sank lower & lower. Desperate zookeepers placed her under an oxygen tent, tried to keep her alive by artificial respiration. But Su Lin died.* Mrs. William Harvest Harkness Jr., who last year brought back Su Lin and this year brought back another baby female panda...