Word: spieled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Real Feeling. What Elliott would like to say is a good word for the sponsors. Often, he drags other Roosevelts into the spiel: "The other day we were driving in from the country and one of the children suddenly called out that there was a great, big bird in the sky . . . Sure enough, there it was, the great big Flamingo blimp, advertising Flamingo orange juice . . ." or ". . . In fact, Mother. I remember when you used to buy numbers of the famous Emerson portables to give away as Christmas presents...
...practiced the auctioneer's spiel as he did his farm chores, at 19 apprenticed himself to an auctioneer for three years, at nothing a year, and became an expert judge of fine cattle. "Doctors may make mistakes, patients die, and laymen don't know why," explains the colonel. "But on the auction stand you're talking to men who know as much...
...tattered stranger appeared at the sophomores' door, claiming that he was "a poor merchant seaman off the S.S. Flamingo" who had gotten drunk on pay day and had been robbed of all he had in the world. His spiel ended with an appeal to the open-mouthed listeners to have a warm spot in their hearts for "a poor Irishman who had a wee bit too much to drink...
With the insistent spiel of carnival barkers, Boston's newspapers were dangling moneymaking lures to get circulation. In recent weeks, their readers could try for a $20,000 top prize in the morning Herald's and afternoon Traveler's "Know New England" contest, untangle "Tangled Towns" for $15,375 in the morning & evening Globe, unscramble movie stars' names for $20,000 in the morning Post. If they still kept a sense of direction, they could play "Where Am I?" for $25,000 in prizes in Hearst's morning Record and afternoon American...
...series of speeches by Politburo members. Malenkov spoke from Moscow's marble Hall of Columns, which the Czars built as a playhouse and where the dead Lenin lay in state before he was embalmed and moved to his red granite tomb in Red Square. It was a long spiel (some 7,000 words in its English translation), full of stock praise for Soviet achievements. The keynote lines were aimed at Western ears...