Word: soapboxing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Civic Center Plaza, idly feeding crumbs to the pigeons, suddenly found three circus elephants in their midst. With equal suddenness, in the midst of the elephants, appeared sober, chunky Roger Dearborn Lapham, the onetime shipowner who is now San Francisco's bustling new mayor. Mounting a soapbox, able Mayor Lapham gave the pigeon feeders an impromptu 15-minute lecture on the merits of unifying the city's traction system. Pointing to the elephants, he cried: "There stands an early outmoded form of transportation the likes of which we intend to get rid of in this town...
Colorful Cast. The accused were a strangely assorted crew. Handsome Joe McWilliams, the soapbox fiührer who used to berate the Jews and laud Hitler on Manhattan street corners, got top billing in the indictment ("United States of America v. Joseph E. McWilliams, et al"). Quiet, swart Lawrence Dennis, U.S. fascism's No. 1 intellectual, sat glumly near benign-faced James True, organizer of America First, Inc., and inventor of the "kike-killer" (Pat. no. 2,026,077), a short rounded club made in two sizes (one for ladies). Chicago's Mrs. Elizabeth ("The Red Network") Dilling...
...Literary Fallacy consists of five lectures given by DeVoto. Purportedly a re-examination of the literary '20s, most of it is given over to a vehement tirade, strident as a soapbox oration, against Van Wyck Brooks and his The Flowering of New England. What may have puzzled Indiana students, and is likely to puzzle readers who pay $2.50 to share their experience, is Mr. DeVoto's belligerence. With a chip on his shoulder the size of a two-by-four, with many a dubious assertion insisted on with the finality of the village atheist, and with sideswipes...
...came, he helped to pull Leningrad through the 515 terrible days of siege. A priest's son, he fought with valor in World War I, helped to break up the Czarist Army with slogans of peace, bread and land, slowly climbed up the ladder of party hierarchy. Soapbox-oratory has given him a chronic hoarseness. He is a tremendously able organizer, an articulate speaker, a student of foreign affairs...
There was the handsome ex-Yorkville Jew-baiter, Joe McWilliams, resplendent in a red-white-&-blue necktie. McWilliams, the Great Profile of the American soapbox, is now the self-appointed leader of the bonus army of World War II. (He is agitating for a $7,800 government bonus for every World War II veteran.) His new backer, blonde, young, black-gowned Socialite Mrs. Alexis de Tarnowsky, accompanied him. Altogether, there were more than 1,000 of them (the Chicago Tribune puffed...