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Word: spiel (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usage:

...Hiya cat, wipe ya feet on the mat, let's slap on the fat and dish out some scat. You're a prisoner of wov, W-O-V, 1280 on the dial, New York, and you're picking up the hard spiel and good deal of Fred Robbins, dispensing seven score and ten ticks of ecstatic static and spectacular vernacular from 6:30 to 9 every black on the 1280 Club. . . . We got stacks of lacquer crackers on the fire, so hang out your hearing flap while His Majesty salivates a neat reed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Prisoners of WOV | 1/20/1947 | See Source »

...picture's one really funny scene: an opera-mad Mexico City cab driver (Mikhail Rasumny) showing the town to Lamour and singing his spiel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Dec. 17, 1945 | 12/17/1945 | See Source »

California's Governor Earl Warren passed his magic wand over his political hat last week, and gave a lengthy spiel about what he would produce. But he surprised no one when he pulled out Joe Knowland's boy and named him U.S. Senator to succeed the late Hiram Johnson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: Just the Man | 8/27/1945 | See Source »

...Major William Fife Knowland, A.U.S.,will be America's youngest Senator. Burly Earl Warren explained that Major Knowland, now with an Army historical section in Paris, precisely fitted the spiel he had made about the kind of man California's new Senator should...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: Just the Man | 8/27/1945 | See Source »

...artist do a painting of the wreck, hung it in his office. A worrier, he devised ways to check on his salesmen's selling talks. One way: he hid microphones behind pictures and under display radios so that he could listen in on the sales spiel in the privacy of his rooftop office. He pioneered in the building of super-duper radios, sold them to wealthy householders for as much as $15,000 each...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hail and Farewell | 7/9/1945 | See Source »

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