Word: blackthorn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...exhibit also includes many of the President's personal effects--his collection of skrimshaw and blackthorn sticks; letters he wrote as a small boy and notes he took during the Cuba missile crisis; his copy of Robert Frost's in a Clearing, inscribed, "I admire you so much I wish I were more of a Democrat than...
...throne of the Czars. Passing through the Theater section with its two million playbills, he unlocked another door and found himself in the Lincoln room. Death masks glared from the shelves and an ax well-worn from rail-splitting lay on a table in the center along with a blackthorn walking stick. "This is even better than the Thomas Wolfe manuscripts," he thought, recalling with some amusement the tons of paper which had arrived from Wolfe's executors. "Tons and tons of scrawly paper and three beer glasses," he muttered, walking next door to the science fiction room. He peered...
Among the many shortcomings of literary life in the U.S. is its lack of a mean old man. There are plenty of lovable old men-Robert Frost, Carl Sandburg, Henry Miller-but no old curmudgeon who clubs young reporters with a tongue like a blackthorn stick and sends them scurrying back to their editors filled with terror and fine quotes. It is a grievous lack. Almost every other part of U.S. society has had such a man: the House of Representatives had its Uncle Joe Cannon, the tobacco industry its George Washington Hill, labor its John L. Lewis and baseball...
...from a world that never was. But Karl von Wiegand brought that world alive. He was a living legend, whose very name might have been lifted from E. Phillips Oppenheim. He was the stage version of the foreign correspondent, complete with collar-up trench coat, brim-down hat, and blackthorn cane. He was a man who had known Hitler in 1921, interviewed two Popes, chartered the Graf Zeppelin for a trip around the world, covered twelve wars and been wounded in two. He had been a working newspaperman for 62 years...
...dispute has dragged on for 38 months. Twice the issues were submitted to impartial arbitrators, including a fact-finding committee appointed by President Eisenhower. Each time the railroad accepted the recommendations, but blackthorn-toting Mike Quill spurned them...