Word: alighting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...sight of great building crashing, and brave firemen being overcome, and fair heroines on eleventh stories jumping into their anticipating arms. True, such luxuries are seldom realized. The end of the fire-seeking trail is generally a wood-shed or a chicken-house which some urchin has se alight. Fair heroines are scarce; and tall sky-scrapers refuse to burn except at uncertain intervals. Yet there is always hope of some great catastrophe, a second Chicago or Baltimore blaze; or perhaps even such a scene as the movies show on red films, while the orchestra pounds the bass...
...those who set fires alight are firebugs, then those who run must be fireflies. They are the perennial searchers for amusement. It is to be hoped that they never follow a false alarm, never miss a flaming catastrophe, and never get their wings scorched by the sparks from the engine or the fire. Nero, bring out your fiddle...