Word: fodder
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...this college. When there is no actual motive for trading haymakers with somebody, especially if you do not know him, an already acquired habit of indifference is likely to act as a double deterrent. This is particularly true if you suspect that you are being recruited as cannon-fodder for some fast-stepping varsity cauliflower vender...
...epicure but no fussbudget. Dr. Browne likes to entertain, likes his guests to enjoy themselves. But people who eat and drink too much or who cannot distinguish good food from fodder annoy him. He has threatened to give two of his friends a dinner consisting entirely of hot dogs, thinks they will notice nothing...
...prepared to fly back from his "crusade" in Idaho to Washington to attend this meeting. Ohio's crop loss was estimated at $200,000,000, Kentucky's at $100,000,000, Missouri's $115,000,000. Husbandmen, despairing of carrying their stock through the winter without fodder, were selling their cattle at ruinous losses...
...trained wild animal show, five days out of winter quarters, gaudy and bullish. Promptly things began to happen: 1) William Schultz, partner, found one of his valuable horses had been stolen, sold to a Negro for $20; 2) The local light company refused to furnish illumination on credit, the fodder merchants to furnish fodder; 3) After putting up the tent, the roustabouts struck, left; 4) The band followed the roustabouts; 5) A rainstorm came, razed the tent; 6) The tent manufacturer and the sheriff came and took the tent away; 7) The lions, hungry, broke out of their cage, went...
Next morning a farmer, setting out early to gather fodder, found Fugate sprawled in a bed of bloody snow, still alive. At the hospital, Fugate, his armbone shattered, raised his right forefinger to swear to the identity of six of his assailants. The six, all kinsmen of murdered Lawyer Watkins, voluntarily surrendered. Only then did the lynched man die, making murderers of indiscreet lynchers who had broken Lynching Rule No. 1: "Do not leave your man until you are absolutely sure he is finished...