Word: rod
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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News of Bob Knetzer's magic formula spread quickly beyond Southern Illinois' coal and farm country. St. Louis and Springfield gangsters, who would rather go without a rod than a Cadillac, scurried with cash in hand to Bob's classy showroom, across the street from Edwardsville's courthouse. Orders came from as far away as California and South America. Cash poured in, cars rolled out and Bob, at 37, was rich...
...later, after poverty and happiness in Concord and in Salem, he wrote it, grew sick over it, and let it be published in a hurry with the long introductory essay on the Salem Custom House-an essay, then, of political significance and courage-acting as a kind-of "lightning rod" to keep the full shock of his masterpiece from the public. Imagination and the life of Salem had interpenetrated. Wrote Oliver Wendell Holmes: "He has done it, and it will never be harsh country again ... A light falls upon the place not of land or sea! How much...
...which the Count glares at death over a shoulder-high shield. Many of the enamels had been intended for use in the Mass and, like the Mass itself, were laden with symbolic meanings. Among the best pieces on show was a crozier from Cluny representing Aaron's rod. It was crozier, blossoming bough, and serpent, all in one. The pure, bright colors, applied to the gold and copper that abounded in the region of Limoges, lay in frozen lakes between the ridges of metal and islanded gems...
Aberdeen's Dr. D. R. MacCalman had an even simpler theory: children were being spoiled by the rod. "Parents and teachers proceed joyfully to knock hell out of the little blighters. And what can the little blighters do but wait till they are big enough to do likewise? Children so brought up are, as adults, aggressive and violent...
...More of the good old days of the three Rs and a little hickory rod or harness strap, and less of the twaddle that infests our [educational system...