Word: soapboxing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pellenc of Marseille comes of a long line of rich soapmakers. In the family's heyday, she says, her great-grandfather opened the Marseille Prefecture Ball by escorting the Empress Eugénie on his arm. In these rowdier days, Mme. Magnan-Pellenc has taken to the political soapbox. Her object is to organize women as "The Amazons of Peace." The amazonian slogan: "War on Man, to Get Peace for the World." The first step is to try to win for women the municipal elections of Marseille, where Mme. Magnan-Pellenc has rallied 283 Amazons...
...only the willfully unrealistic could fail to see it. The protagonists were Secretary of State George Marshall and the spokesman of the Russian delegation, Soviet Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs Andrei Yanuarevich Vishinsky. The ultimate issue was peace v. eventual war. The immediate struggle was for control of the soapbox-for that, the Russians had demonstrated, was how they thought of U.N. The question was: How could the peace-loving nations prevent the Russians from using this potential focus of power and international moral rostrum to keep the nations divided and make peace a diminishing allusion...
...night last week at half a dozen or more busy street corners in London, a passer-by could stop and hear an old-fashioned soapbox speech on politics. It was a new fashion of the Conservatives, who suddenly seemed to be under the influence of a big dose of triple-strength Benzedrine. They got a lift from a Gallup poll. It showed a Tory gain and a Labor loss in public popularity in the last year; they were now neck & neck, and if an election were held this week it might be either's neck. Moreover, the street meetings...
...Commies go to it. Give them their share of newsprint and radio time, and let them rave. Let them address the D.A.R. in their Washington hall, if they can get an audience. Let them set up a soapbox in front of Independence Hall and holler their heads off. Let them lambast the Democratic and Republican Parties to their hearts' content (both parties need it every...
This story is written with passion, but without soapbox oratory. It less reviles Profiteer Keller than it sternly reveals him: he has rationalized his guilt by telling himself that he acted like any "practical" American; he has sloughed off his responsibility to society by concentrating on his duty to his family. In Chris and his mother, too, tribal loyalties clash with human obligations...