Word: knife
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Racing through the pages of Author Raymond Thorp's Bowie Knife, Iraq's impressionable young (20) King Feisal II got so excited about the wonderful versatility of such a weapon* that he instructed his aide-de-camp to try to get one of the genuine articles from the book's publisher, the University of New Mexico Press. Word of Feisal's request splashed into U.S. wire services, and soon the university's President Tom Popejoy was being showered with offers of stilettos, daggers, cheese knives and bodkins from all over. San Antonio's Chamber...
...knife, one of the best all-round weapons of its sort ever invented (useful for any chore from spreading butter to disemboweling enemies, also good for throwing), is still a topic of controversy among experts on such hardware. The question: Was it devised by obscure Frontiersman Rezin P. Bowie or by his famed brother, heroic Colonel James Bowie, who died in the siege of the Alamo...
...Herb Shriner. And Writer Tom Blackburn has invented a Crockett filled with engaging crotchets: when first encountered, Davy is deep in the piney woods taking time off from Indian-fighting to try to "grin" a bear into submission. This budding effort at psychological warfare fails, and Davy needs a knife to subdue the critter. Throughout the picture, the heroic act is never far removed from the owlish legpull: when Crockett comes prancing into Congress garbed in backwoods buckskins, neither he nor anyone else pretends that these are his idea of city clothes or that his "by-cracky" freshman speech...
Once Micah has snatched his night of love with Lana, Director Richard Thorpe winds things up with the required doses of remorse, retribution and forgiveness. Lana gets burned up-literally, Calhern gets a knife in the throat, and Micah contentedly trades the fleshpots of Damascus for an entree of veal back home...
...Shakespeare. Said Actress Roman: "We're doing Macbeth on a sex basis. I'm playing a slut (Lily Macbeth). Joe Macbeth (Paul Douglas) is a gangster who turns yellow and leaves the killing up to Lily. I'll do it with a revolver. We thought a knife would be too bloody...