Peter Schiff, President of Euro Pacific Capital, holding a scythe on his property in Westport, Conn.
In WITWIOBL Spurlock hears thoughtful comments from people who've lived under the scythe of war all their lives.
The personage is Mexico's idolatrous form of the Grim Reaper: a skeleton sometimes male, sometimes female covered in a white, black or red cape, carrying a scythe, or a .
Napoleon Bonaparte in Boston Globe Be it so,Napoleon says when he learns his destination. "On this desolate rock we will write our memoirs. We must be employed - occupation is the scythe of time."
Patrick Kavanagh in Irish Times In his football memoir, Gut Yer Man , Kavanagh quotes a local ballad commemorating yet another Donaghmoyne victory: "Then Inniskeen came on the field and they were stuffed with pride/ They fell before the Fontenoys like grass before a scythe."