Word: urchin
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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What if some vagrant urchin did press the unlucky fire-button which started all the excitement? What if Claverly Hall was not in flames, as some of the scurrying undergraduates fondly and audibly hoped? We have been generously treated to a free and frantic demonstration of the quite exciting efficiency of the fire-fighters and hose-hoisters of Cambridge, who late forbade two successive smokers in the poor old Union. If the impact of final examinations or the discreet and tinder-dry celebration of Class Day should somehow cause spontaneous combustion hereabouts, we know that they will be at hand...
Books are barren things without breadth. The little urchin on the street selling papers to a thousand passing people is more deeply versed in human psychology than the college man of twice his years specializing in abstruse philosophy. He knows that all men are not selfish, as your embryo pessimist would believe, and that all men are not prosperous and well-fed, as the young college optimist would like to hope...
...joyous for the sight of great building crashing, and brave firemen being overcome, and fair heroines on eleventh stories jumping into their anticipating arms. True, such luxuries are seldom realized. The end of the fire-seeking trail is generally a wood-shed or a chicken-house which some urchin has se alight. Fair heroines are scarce; and tall sky-scrapers refuse to burn except at uncertain intervals. Yet there is always hope of some great catastrophe, a second Chicago or Baltimore blaze; or perhaps even such a scene as the movies show on red films, while the orchestra pounds...