Word: fodder
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Those disillusioning persons who insist that war has become entirely a matter of high-powered guns, cannon fodder, and casualties will be thoroughly discomfited by the reports from Morocco. There the dashingly romantic absurdities of uncommercialized combat are being reacted; prisoners are ransomed with Spanish gold; fiery sheiks of the desert sweep across the lonely sands with Damascan blades flashing in the sunlight...
Thus when Vicente Blasco Ibanez, a writer of ability, but of little depth, attacks the King of Spain, his plot is doubtless fodder for the cinema kings. Beyond that it need not be taken seriously. The attack was delivered and much was made of it in the daily press. Said Blasco...
...opinion about chorus girls, that they can ward her off with wealth. By a curious coincidence common to the stage, Sister is in the same cafe with the family chauffeur, and Brother is somewhere downstairs, very drunk, and jealous because his fragile flower is getting her evening's fodder at the expense of two elderly unknowns. By the end of the scene everybody has strayed into everybody's else private dining room and there is a great deal of talk about going to Turkish baths to sober up in time to go up to Greenwich and get married...
...directly proportioned to its ability to use its hands for handling objects, rather than for locomotion. The gorilla has retrograded in some respects. Once it was an arboreal ape, and walked nearly erect. But its increasing weight (300 pounds) drove it from the trees to the ground to seek fodder on the surface; its hind legs were not able to support its body alone, so now it uses its arms as crutches, more like a quadruped...
...Author. Cosmo Hamilton was born in London, one of four brothers, of whom three are writers: Sir Philip Gibbs, famed War correspondent and subsequent novelist, Arthur Hamilton Gibbs, who wrote Gun Fodder, and Cosmo, author of plays and novels, among which are The Belle of Mayfair, The Blindness of Virtue, The Blue Room, Scandal, The Silver Fox, The New Poor...