Word: rouser
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Died. Gerald L.K. Smith, 78, self-styled rabble-rouser and proudly bigoted founder of the extreme right-wing Christian Nationalist Crusade; of pneumonia; in Glendale, Calif. A fundamentalist preacher, Smith left his pulpit to work for Louisiana Governor Huey Long, crossing the country to set up Share-Our-Wealth Clubs. After Long's death in 1935, Smith turned far right. In his virulent magazine The Cross and The Flag, he heaped invective on Jews, blacks, Catholics, Communists and labor unions, and campaigned to drive "Franklin D. Jewsevelt" out of the White House...
...year younger than Kitty and a bachelor, Parnell was an odd sort for an Irish revolutionary. There was none of the inflammatory rabble-rouser about him; indeed he had an unmistakably U English accent and was mad about cricket. They made a handsome couple; her lover matched Kitty's delicate face with a rather fragile body, and, apparently, unforgettable eyes. For all his magnetism and occasionally furious drive, Parnell was innately lazy. Between leading the Irish nationalists in Parliament and being Kitty's lover, he seems to have preferred the latter role. While her husband was conveniently absent...
Critics see him as an irresponsible rabble-rouser out to destroy democratic government. To his admirers, he is the champion of the downtrodden, a political savior who has emerged from retirement to save them from what they see as despotic rule. The independent-minded son of a minor Bihar state official, Narayan at the age of 19 used a $600 wedding gift to set off alone to the U.S., where he studied at Berkeley and the University of Wisconsin and became a convert to Communism. Returning to India, he became deeply involved with Gandhi and Nehru in the independence movement...
...Paisley, 46, became a member of the British Parliament 22 months ago. Since then he has transformed his image from that of a sectarian rabble-rouser to what many of his colleagues in Commons consider the authentic voice of Ulster. His warnings last week to Protestant extremists- - "Anarchy cannot be answered by more anarchy" won him widespread applause...
...Rebel Rouser...