Word: spiel
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...Your vain attempts in the past to make a first-rate author out of that primitive, Hemingway, were ridiculous . . . Your present attempt to make a first-rate writer out of the third-rate Wouk is another TIME spiel. Still, while he is not in any way nothing except a hack, he is right about the bohemianism of literature...
Clouds piled high over Churchill Downs.Lightning flickered, and a few drops splashed from the thunderheads. The band broke into My Old Kentucky Home, the mint-julep vendors stopped their spiel, and the carnival that was the 81st Kentucky Derby slowed down to a hush...
...offices of the New York Better Business Bureau and Kings County (Brooklyn) District Attorney Edward S. Silver. To nail the offenders, Silver had policemen and policewomen pose as residents of apartments that were wired with tape recorders. The couples would answer the commercials, record the salesman's spiel when he called on them...
Coward patiently repeated his spiel, this time "articulating very, very slowly as though I were talking to an idiot child." But Brooks only sighed wearily and said: "It's no good, old boy. I can't understand a word." By the Numbers. Brooks "explained some weeks later . . . that he had been asleep when I rang up and thought I was [someone named] Reggie!" He also tried to atone by teaching Agent Coward a new code consisting "entirely of numbers" and of such awful complexity that "if ever I had been captured by the Gestapo they would certainly have...
...sour second Hurley showed disgust. "Feel around and see if you're still in bed," he snapped. Then the old pitchman started his spiel again. His "athalete," he told the reporters, was going to murder Cockell. The words flicked out sharper than a Matthews...