Word: firebug
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...musician who cannot afford to marry her, draws solace from her piano until that, too, is taken from her. Leo Gordon, father of this unhappy brood, is a dreamy designer of pocketbooks whose partner is revealed in rapid succession as a brutal exploiter of his workers, an incipient firebug, an absconder. Half a dozen other characters in Paradise Lost do not get along well either. Nevertheless, Leo Gordon is able to say in a full-length curtain speech that everything is going to be all right now that they have all hit hard pan. "The world...
...symbol of and signal for a nation-wide Communist revolt. Not the slightest proof of this ever materialized, the Nazis themselves assuming all power instead and using the Reichstag fire as an excuse for Chancellor Hitler's repressive acts (TIME, March 13 et seq.). Last week amid Firebug van der Lubbe's passionate protest, Judge Bunger suspended the trial for half an hour and the Dutchman was led below. When brought back into court he again seemed stupefied as in the past but suddenly began to writhe and gasp as though struggling to throw off his stupor...
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...smallest, a pomeranian, Bogota Firebug, minced into the ring on insect legs. Like a mosquito who has been crawling in the fluffy dust under a boarding house bed, he stood, looking up at the crowd with startled, pert malignance...