Word: arson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...neglect. Last week a leading expert on this ancient weapon revealed that the Nazis were clumsy and amateurish incendiarists at best. Tall, dressy Colonel Joaquin Enrique Zanetti, Professor of Chemistry at Columbia University, is the No. 1 U. S. pyrotechnician. Last week he published a concise handbook of arson: Fire from the Air-the ABC of Incendiaries (Columbia University Press...
Said he: "You are a counterfeiter, you were an auto thief, you were charged with arson, you were hounded out of Pennsylvania and New Jersey, and you came over to this city to pollute the citizens. You are just as infectious as though you put poison in our water system. ... I don't agree with my colleagues in extending you leniency. . . . You have no more right being in the publishing business than I have in an airplane, and I have never been in one." Then, shaking his finger at the white-faced defendant, Justice Hackenburg shouted: "You stink...
Then on another Sunday foreign youths in sleek black bombers swept over central London and dumped 10,000 incendiary bombs in a coldly calculated Nazi attempt at mass arson. Any modern Samuel Pepys picking his way through the twisted streets of the City last week could have described scenes matching those...
...primitives. These were by a bedridden ex-gob named Robert S. Owen, who painted them while lying on his back in his Colorado Springs home. Painter Owen's posters, reminiscent of the childlike, words-of-one-syllable cartoons of Hearstman Nelson Harding, belched and dripped with arson and mayhem, made Europe's troubles look like a chamber of horrors. In one a bolshevik-bearded, Kaiser-helmeted Nazi labeled Absolutism horsewhipped a half-clad damsel named Humanity, while the sausagelike corpses of Liberty and Justice lay strewn behind them across the map of Europe. Circumspect White Committee officials...
...bombs are dropped upon them day and night, week in, week out. For U. S. audiences, the commentator was big, beefy Quentin Reynolds, war correspondent for Collier's weekly, whose favorite vantage point for watching air raids was the unsheltered roof of his apartment building (Lansdowne House, renamed "Arson House") in London's swank Berkeley Square. Of all the tough U. S. writers covering the Battle of Britain, "Quent" Reynolds was close to the toughest, yet in a letter printed in Variety last week he said: ". . . You can only make all this London business exciting if you haven...