Word: blackthorne
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Dates: during 1931-1931
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...sees the best women he'll ever see while in college"); his word-coining ("quacktitioner," "pluviculture," "sciosophy" meaning organized ignorance); his abhorrence of liquor, tobacco, ignorance, arrogance, vulgarity (he said some people should write a "V" before their names); a fine old Tolstoyan sitting in the sun with his blackthorn stick and shepherd...
...evening Mrs. Holmes would sometimes read to her husband while he played solitaire. Now it is the Young Fellow who reads. When Justice Holmes was stronger there was daily at 5 p. m. a 40-minute walk, Young Fellow and tall, fine old jurist flourishing his Irish blackthorn stick, talking of all things, drawing out his young protegee...