Word: blackthorne
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William Mayne and his successors set the nineteenth century trend of making shafts from ash or hazel and club heads of blackthorn, beech, apple, or pear...
Executive Producer Sidney Glazier saw to it that the contest is played out against the right backdrop: Irish locations, filmed lovingly by Gerry Fisher, and a cast of splendid faces, as hard and gnarled as blackthorn walking sticks. As directed by Jack Gold, Catholics fairly aches with monkish verisimilitude. When Kinsella's arrival at the abbey prompts Father Manus (a delightful cameo by Cyril Cusack) to rustle up a feast of fresh salmon, the viewer can almost taste...
...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...