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...FIREBRAND-Gaudy irreverence toward the days and nights of Benvenuto Cellini, famed and garrulous goldsmith...
...improvisation upon his own. But Mr. Hecht, though dark, shaggy and demonaical of mien, managed to continue for 13 years as a trusted employe of The Chicago Journal and The Chicago Daily News; he is now at large in Manhattan as press agent for Joseph Schildkraut in The Firebrand. Aged 31, he has a wife and two children. He is kind to dogs, children and old people. From this it would appear that his state of mind, however uncomfortable it may be when he writes, is not without some solace. So far, it has made of him nothing more fearsome...
...Hunger is the firebrand of revolution. There is no time for protracted debate...
...undergraduate at Harvard, his thesis for a degree was a strong defense or the proposition that "it is lawful to resist the Supreme Magistrate if the Commonwealth cannot be otherwise preserved." There is no reason to believe that Adams ever swerved from this conviction. But he was no mere firebrand. When the question of the Constitution hung in the balance in Massachusetts it was Adams who, unsatisfied as he was with the document, used his influence for its adoption...
Lippincott's--"The Firebrand," G. A. England...