Word: rouser
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...world's great sopranos, La Scala's U.S.-born Maria Meneghini Callas, made her U.S. debut in Chicago last week. It was a rouser. recalling Chicago's greatest operatic days with Mary Garden and Galli-Curci...
...economic and political future of Western Europe, and that now includes the U.S. . . . West Germany could have been a powder keg to pro duce chaos . . . and the freedom-loving people of the world owe Adenauer a great deal. My God ! What if another rabble-rouser had come to the top ? ARTHUR H. HASCHE Watertown...
...from the New Dealish Las Vegas Sun, after arriving to attend a meeting of T.W.A. directors, "I automatically think of Hitler. I would believe anything about him, and I think your paper and its publisher, Hank Greenspun, should be commended on the stand it has taken against this rabble-rouser . . . It's a shame that McCarthy is a member of the G.O.P., because he has done the Republican Party no good...
...convention of magazine publishers at White Sulphur Springs, W.Va. "Business is also on trial in Wall Street and Main Street . . . In the days of Horatio Alger and Calvin Coolidge, business was the pin-up hero. Then came the financial crash and the Depression. That tragedy gave every rabble-rouser a chance to blame business . . . It has taken business more than two decades to climb back to where it is respected and trusted again...
...austere, lonely dedication, Kurt Schumacher manipulates a party and directs a force that will last after his own broken body and strong will give out. To the men who know and work for him, he is neither the dangerous rabble-rouser nor neo-nationalist he seems, but a savior of Germany. They excuse his violent speeches. Often, they say, he will descend from a rostrum shaking his head and murmuring, "Well, I believe that I was again somewhat too sharp." His byword, they insist, is not nein, but ja, aber so nicht-which means "yes, but not this way." Schumacher...