Word: soapboxed
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...devastating effect of the tabloids on public morals is shown by Beulah Stevenson in her "Purity," wherein are seen two horror-stricken women, drunk with the joy of morbidity. The headlines are not omitted, typical of the close-to-home-and-nature moralizing of the whole exhibit's soapbox eloquence...
...elsewhere, though perhaps a bit more furtively unclean. Yet East End squalor has its attractions for aristocrats. Smart Londoners go there occasionally, as do Manhattanites to Harlem's "Black Belt." Blue-blooded Socialists like Lady Cynthia Mosely, daughter of the late Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, dabble there in soapbox oratory.* Thither, for an escape from decorum, went last week Edward of Wales...
...view of himself is brightened by the radiant fact that his books do sell, en masse. In this latest, he consumes 448 pages with a halting account of how, after the War, Simon Paris by an unspectacular miracle found "Christ the Common Denominator," and became an active (soapbox preaching) part of the Great Purpose. Nothing is made very clear, except that Simon's two brothers ("Old Niggs" and "Old Charles") were unhappy and he was kind to them. The wife of one was ravishing but gambled and fell ill with smallpox. The wife of the other wanted...
...leader, although this post usually goes to a tenor. He has been initiated into his father's fraternity (Phi Gamma Delta). He has met with decorum all the customary American assaults upon the dignity of a freshman (they once made him speak half an hour from a soapbox in praise of Senator LaFollette). And President George D. Olds-veteran professor who succeeded Alexander Meiklejohn - described his academic record as being "very satisfactory...
Twelve hours in steel: a subject for salon, schoolroom and soapbox...