Word: soapboxing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...correspondent, there met and talked to Lenin. One day, after the Armistice, Bob Minor was put under arrest, condemned to be shot for spreading Bolshevik propaganda among U. S. troops. Friends intervened and he was released. He returned to the U. S. and a life of soapbox orating, street-corner meetings, parades, riots, writing for the Daily Worker, which he edited. He went through the motions of running for Mayor of New York City, for Governor of the State. As his third wife he married an ex-socialite, Lydia Gibson...
Next afternoon, over the dust-deep roads of Walker County, fierce with Alabama's autumn sunshine, 25,000 people went to pay their last respects to "Mr. Will." Jasper's First Methodist Church was roped off-a piece of twine strung from a telephone pole to a soapbox to a fireplug to another telephone pole. Men in overalls and blue denim shirts lined the street. Fans waved under tattered parasols. The loudspeaker brayed a prayer. Sweat-stained hats came off; the crowd's murmur hushed. Children scuffed their feet in the dusty heat...
Harry Dalton, 29, is a big, friendly Manhattan building contractor who used to play halfback at West Point. He is also a devout Catholic and vigorous American. Strolling with some friends one evening a few years ago, he paused to listen to a soapbox orator in full cry under a huge cross set up in Manhattan's Columbus Circle. Some of the things the rabble-rouser spouted as "Catholic" doctrine burned Harry up. "I was in Jesuit schools twelve years," he growled, "and I never heard stuff like that." He began to growl louder. The speaker kicked...