soapbox orator

Union Square has since been the site of many rallies and a platform for soapbox orators.

But, like all the best soapbox orators, Major had prepared his repartee in advance.

She is bold and outspoken, a skeptic in contrast to his role as a soapbox orator.

Soapbox orators waxed on topics ranging from gender relations to Communism.

Toward the end, two black Israelite soapbox orators harangued the marchers for mixing races.

She was considered a soapbox orator for her suffrage talks, and her activities were documented in newspapers across the region.

The soapbox orators on 125th Street kept the shoppers and strollers informed about what was happening in the South.

He was the soapbox orator who could quote Virgil or Shakespeare to give dignity to a bitter grudge.

It served as a home for soapbox orators on warm-weather evenings from the 1910s to the mid-1960s.

What defines the storyteller is his upbringing amid soapbox orators and folk singers who vied for the floor at every party.

This smart-alecky question gets to the heart of what distinguishes Ireland from her predecessors - soapbox orators with great rhetorical power but little humor.

Shaw was cutting a calculated, irresistibly dangerous figure as a firebrand critic, polemicist and soapbox orator long before his plays were first produced in London.

It's a little harder to say"-he assumed the tone of a soapbox orator-" 'Accounting is taking over!' "

Hyde Park, London is known for its Sunday soapbox orators, who have assembled at Speakers' Corner since 1872 to discuss religion, politics and other topics.

Quinlan was regarded as an effective soapbox orator and formal public speaker, a person capable of winning audiences over with a sarcastic and intense delivery style.

In colorful prose, Justice Stevens described the Internet as the "town crier" of the modern age, expanding the reach of the soapbox orator and today's electronic pamphleteers.

To shift from the Rye exhibition to that filling the Longwood Arts Gallery in the Bronx is to wonder if too many artists have become soapbox orators.

They gathered about a table like conferring politicians, beckoned from platforms like circus barkers or soapbox orators and did little dances that could have come from music-hall routines.

Lord Sutch was said to have come by his exhibitionism through his father and grandfather, both of whom had been soapbox orators at Speakers Corner in Hyde Park.

Preachers and hustlers would still be free to work on less crowded sidewalks nearby, and the city might also set aside special areas for soapbox orators, like Speakers' Corner in Hyde Park, London.

Like Britain's Hyde Park, the Maidan attracts ferocious soapbox orators predicting the end of the world, but it is also visited by the most wonderful charlatans peddling medicine and other questionable substances.

When the two arrived at the train station the same women that allegedly needed protection from the soapbox orators yelled "Give us that anarchist; we will strip her naked; we will tear out her guts."

The Rev. Lord Soper, a Methodist minister and Labor peer who was the most famous and longest-running soapbox orator at Speakers' Corner in Hyde Park, died on Tuesday in London.

Justice Robert Jackson was perhaps stating an extreme view of the fragmentation of the First Amendment when he wrote 40 years ago that the laws of movies, radio, newspapers, handbills, soapbox orators, billboards and so on were each "a law unto itself."

On March 6, 1927, police shot and killed one man and seriously wounded another, Celsten Eklund, a radical anarchist and local soapbox orator, as the two men attempted to light the fuse of a large dynamite bomb in front of the church.