Word: soapboxed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...product of the industrial revolution, the soapbox, has left its mark on all consciously "proletarian" writing. Curbstone oratory, more effective in the open air than in the echoing covers of a book, is drawing bigger crowds than once it did, and publishers, their anxious fingers on the public pulse, are beginning to prescribe this form of mild dynamite. Though alert Publisher Farrar finds Upsurge "impossible to describe," he admits that this manifesto-poem is "frankly a message...
...little less sure of himself, he might have broken a cluster to put Ponzi out of position instead of trying to run out the game. Son of a Greek pool parlor proprietor, Caras learned to play when he was 7 and so small he had to stand on a soapbox. He uses a 20-oz. cue, opens his mouth ferociously when making a run, takes no exercise for fear of becoming muscle bound, supports nine members of his family on his winnings...
...London, 3,000 school teachers planned to march from Thames Embankment to "soapbox corner" in Hyde Park, as a protest against the 15% cut in their salaries under the new budget (see p. 16). They were the first professional group so to demonstrate their discontent...
...Soapbox. A bird biplane landed on Roosevelt Field, N. Y., one afternoon last week and a small boy in knee-breeches jumped out. Bystanders looked casually for the pilot to follow him. None appeared. The boy, Joseph Sheehan Jr., 12, of Suffern, N. Y., had made his first solo flight, sitting on a soap-box and two air cushions to reach the controls. Next day Henry Bierds, 17, of Nyack (near Suffern) soloed after 100 min. instruction...
Smart, the defense determined to do exactly this, subpenaed Herr Hitler as a witness, got ready to offer him the opportunity to use the witness stand as a soapbox...