Word: firebug
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Some of the poems here are not clear. John Ashbury's Chinatown, for instance, is filled with small startling things--"when the firebug grated a lemon"--which only jounce; taken as a whole, the poem is dreamy and shapeless...
...Some people in all age groups like to set fires, but for different reasons, said the University of Southern California's Psychiatrist Stanley J. Geller. He concentrated on preadolescents (six to eleven), found that his 75 subjects were all boys. (The only female firebug he found was a girl of 14.) "Without fail," said Dr. Geller, "the marital relationship of the parents was unstable or really nonexistent. In 77% of the cases the real fathers were extremely hostile, aggressive men who frequently beat their children. In approximately half the children, enuresis [bedwetting] was an accompanying symptom." The Freudian explanation...
Service beyond the line of duty may be claimed by Art Graham this week. He proved the Hero of Holden Green. Easter morning when he saved the life of a 10 year old firebug...
...headache, set fires for excitement every time he took a few drinks. When he accompanied them to The Bronx, pointed out nine buildings he had previously fired, police believed they had cleared up a series of incendiary fires that have terrorized Bronx dwellers for two years. Firebug Preston carefully guided them, past locations where incendiary fires resulted fatally, pointed only to addresses where no lives were lost. Said the police: "These incendiary fires have caused us more worry than any five murderers...
...Halloween celebration on the part of a certain firebug element among the undergraduates was the consensus of opinion as to the casus belli. The immediate result was a half hour traffic tieup, during which time the delayed motorists expressed impatience in the usual harmonious fashion...