Word: arsonist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There have been four minor fires around the College in the last ten days, which has suggested to some keen minds that an arsonist may be at large. If this is so, I would like to beg him, on behalf of the entire Harvard community, to stop setting these petty little blazes and to start thinking...
Memorial Hall is the first project that comes to mind. And when he is finished with that, he should waste no time fingering the ashes. Let him go immediately to the junction of Mt. Auburn and Bow Streets and look about him. That is one place where no sensitive arsonist could fail to see his duty...
Editorially the World-Telegram bemoaned the "prison-opening impulses of transient, interim governors" and implied that by paroling Arsonist Hoffman, Poletti was currying Labor's favor "as a future political asset...
...jungles of southeastern Yucatan and the arid hills of northwestern Sonora. The torches, symbols of freedom, were supposed to reach the capital for the Day of Revolution, Nov. 20. But last fortnight one torch was extinguished. Padding through a little village in Sinaloa, the torchbearer was arrested as an arsonist...