Word: soapboxing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Said the farewell issue under the old regime: "Today, we pick up our soapbox and move over to another corner. The old pitch was a good one. . . . But the traffic has changed. . . . We still can't help feeling some twinges of nostalgia...
...Soapbox. The Sun promptly merged its editorial and feature pages, dumped one of its two pages of comics, set up a new editorial policy board to ensure better coverage of the news, as well as the causes...
...Helen Gahagan Douglas, 46, once named one of the twelve most beautiful women in the U.S., former actress and singer, who left the boards for the soapbox during the depression. Her last Broadway hit: Tonight or Never...
George Bernard Shaw, who, at 41, climbed off his soapbox to become socialist member of London's St. Pancras borough council, was prevented (by a fall) from receiving the council's belated recognition: freedom of the borough. He had tumbled from his swivel chair and bruised a leg. But he delivered an acceptance speech anyway (by radio transcription). Said Shaw: "When one is very old, as I am . . . your legs give in before your head does. Consequently you're always tumbling about. I tumble down about three times a week . . . and . . . it was perfectly plain that...
...enforce the laws than he will climb to the top of a flagpole to eat his lunch." Next day the Republican Statesman used an entire editorial column to bail out the Democratic governor and bawl out its free-swinging columnist. Vardis Fisher quit in a huff, looked for another soapbox. Last week, readers who really missed him had to buy a tiny upstart weekly called Statewide (circ. 5,000). Fisher and his new editor were getting along fine...