Word: arsons
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...institutions year after year", that "it simply asserts that we prefer to play the game as a same." The Editors, in their own page, chime in an active higher, and berate in a few semi-quavers the easy chair athletes whose howls mingle lugubriously with the dally chronicles of arson, murder, and adultery in the columns of New York and Boston journals...
When U. S. citizens last focused their attention on Count Johann Heinrich von Bernstorff, pre-War Ambassador to the U. S., he was sailing toward home and Fatherland, while the U. S. War-time press thundered accusations that his agents had encomposed every crime from espionage and arson to letting loose deadly bacilli among the perambulators in Central Park, Manhattan...
Again Evangelist J. Frank Norris of Fort Worth, Tex., has been found not guilty of a criminal charge. Fourteen years ago he overcame prosecution for arson and then for perjury, after his Fort Worth Baptist church and parsonage had been burned. This time the charge was murder...
...Pastor's career has been stormy. A Ku Klux Klan member, he has been tried (and acquitted) for arson, was an aide of William Jennings Bryan in the Scopes Evolution trial, has vigorously denounced race tracks, Catholics, other things and persons...
...lips, went and hung himself, but these modern Judases [Liberals] continue to occupy the pulpit and use the name of Christ and live off the money of orthodox people." Dr. Norris reached for a desk drawer. Pious Parson Norris was indicted in 1912 at Fort Worth for perjury and arson in connection with the burning of his church. Disciples did not desert him, rather increased in number. He has soaked Texas evangelical prospects in a religious fervor approaching fanaticism. Dr. Norris drew a pistol; shot. Mr. Chipps fell. Dr. Norris had sent three bullets into him. He died...