Word: arson
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...Crime Club is not a drink, a name for Tier 44 in the east wing at Leavenworth, or the latest headline symbolism for the first half of the Yankee batting order. The Crime Club is the Literary Guild idea, restricted, to the less aesthetic paths of murder, rape and arson. "A jury of mystery experts examines manuscripts--and from these the great ones are selected...
...Floggings, gougings, and arson are the special privileges of prohibition's standing army-the Knights of the Nightshirt...
...think that when a country sends a man to this country as an Ambassador, or in any other capacity, it certainly should not send a murderer, or a rapist, or a man who would commit arson; at least it should send one who would not be guilty of any one of those three classes of crimes. When they have no regard for this country, but send that class of people here, I think that when they kill children on the street, when they take American girls to places for debauchery and debauch them and brag on it, and openly violate...
...concerned, and are being kept alive for reasons of internal politics. Naturally, then M. Stalin made a great many charges last week against the British Government which seemed to most Anglo-Saxons mere balderdash. For example, Dictator Stalin declared flatly: "The British Government is financing terrorist spies who commit arson and murder throughout the Soviet Union...
...Salisbury, Md., six weeks ago one Mrs. Mary Hearn, for 18 years Farmer Samuel Russell's housekeeper, burned down his house after a quarrel. Since then she has been in jail, waiting trial for arson. Last week Farmer Russell, feeling remorse for having made her angry enough to want to burn him to death, went to jail, where he married her. Other prisoners threw beans at the hugging couple...