Word: spieled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...serious vein, there is the calm, careworn father, his hand in groceries, his mind with God. There is the blunt, slangy, kindly matron who wants to marry everyone off; the professional matchmaker, with his human goldbricks and his spiel; the absurdly natty, paunchy, rich upstart. As they cluck, strut, brag, fib, fence, they have no great personal identity; they spill over indeed into caricature. But they boast a sort of tribal flesh; their pretenses and deprecations and denials are bequests from a world of hard competition to a world...
...propos of Massachusetts' own, there is a story making the rounds about Kennedy's need for help from the Texas leaders. A Kennedy scout was touting his boy to a Texas politico and finished his spiel with a question: "You don't seem to care about Jack's being a Catholic...
...friend of Hayes-Bickford well knows you must add or subtract one or two decibels from the continuous spiel of college theatre people, if you seek something akin to the ring of truth (that is). Whether you add or subtract largely depends on which way the warm wind blows; when a number of The Good Woman's company quit in desperation last week, the breeze ran swift and hot. My abacus lost track utterly, trying to keep count amid such blustery meteorology and all. You sometimes wonder why such a modest little show as this one should involve these higher...
Bagged for a TV interview in Rio, New York's vacationing Governor-elect Nelson Rockefeller gamely plowed through a new, unsought role: stooge on an eggbeater spiel. Following some 20 minutes of political chitchat, sultry Interviewer Lidia Matos casually stuck an appliance in Rocky's grip, asked the key question: What is it? An egg beater, answered Rockefeller, brightly but warily. "You're right," warbled Saleswoman Matos, beaming into the camera. "It's the lightest, most efficient egg beater made in Brazil...
Next Marcus began buying Artloom stock, in June got himself elected chairman of the board. Thereafter he repeated his old spiel about big mergers to transform Artloom into a diversified manufacturing company. As before, the stock started up. When SEC looked closely last week, at least part of the reason was apparent. Not only did Marcus hold, at last report, 50,000 of Artloom's 504,982 outstanding shares, but the Manhattan brokerage firm of Van Alstyne, Noel & Co., of which Marcus is a partner, was reported to have had registered 225,000 shares for its own account...