From ‘The burning of the Zeppelin’, The Spectator, 9 September 1916:
Half London formed the vast proscenium for this tragedy of the air, and saw on the aerial stage the triumph of right over might — saw with their natural eyes David smite Goliath and hurl him in flaming ruin to the ground.

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