Word: rods
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Jerry Paulus strokes the third crew, with Charlie Robinson the seven-man, Bob Green at six, Al Rieselbach at five, Harry Gibson at four, Bruce Morgan at three, Steve Heartt at two, and Rod Park...
Spare the Rod. Over the years, the female teacher, as reported by U.S. authors, never seemed to improve. There were a few "sweet young things" in popular novels (e.g., Rose Kramer in Ruth Suckow's Kramer Girls'), but they invariably escaped their fate by marrying or becoming secretaries before it was too late. The rest were like Thomas Wolfe's teacher in Look Homeward, Angel ("a gaunt red-faced spinster, with fierce glaring eyes"), or like Sherwood Anderson's frustrated Kate Swift, "silent, cold, and stern...
...says Psychologist Charles. There was Washington Irving's gawky schoolmaster Ichabod Crane, "with huge ears, large green glassy eyes, and a long snipe nose, so that [his head] looked like a weathercock perched upon his spindle neck . . ." Tom Sawyer's bewigged schoolmaster was fussy, pedantic, strict ("his rod and his ferule were seldom idle") and frustrated ("The darling of his desires was to be a doctor, but poverty had decreed that he should be nothing higher than a village schoolmaster"). Wolfe's idea of a schoolmaster, also described in Look Homeward, Angel, was "a plump, soft, foppish...
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