Word: firebug
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Today and tomorrow the Harvard Dramatic Club presents at private performances at 8 and 9 o'clock the fifth annual Miracle Play against the "Cathedral background of the Germanic Museum," as the official notice phrases it. The cathedral background is the replica of the golden gate of Firebug that stands at the end of the Romanesque Hall and serves as an almost ideal stage for a religious play of this kind...
...were to muster before me the murderer with blood-wet hands, the thief in possession of his loot, the highwayman armed with bludgeon and pistol, the firebug with his torch, the burglar with dark lantern and jimmy, and if you were to place with that assembly of rogues the wretch who had corrupted an election, I would unhesitatingly declare the corruptionist the blackest scoundrel of them all. I would so say because the man who attacks the foundations of his Government and thereby assails the very structure of society is the greater criminal, the more intolerable villain, for his criminality...
...fact that a score of blazes developed simultaneously shows it is unlikely the fire was accidental. So monstrous a plot could not logically have been concocted by men crazed with the "firebug" mania, and as Worcester is well-known for its radical element, the finger of guilt seems to point at Bolshevism. Coupled with previous and similar losses, and recent strikes in the manufacturing plants on the same scene, the case against the "reds" gathers weight. Until definite proof is offered, of course, it were folly to assume on the spur of the instant that any special group...
Probably the damage would have been slightly less, had not the Yard watchman, who was running to send in the alarm, been mistaken for a firebug by a Radio School guard, who held him up as he was running to the box. The necessary explanations delayed the calling of the fire department for a short time...