Word: spieler
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...when I danced with the wife of the mayor of Fairbanks . . . she clapped me on the shoulder and exclaimed, 'Boy, you're some spieler!' " Still coming over loud & clear, radio's aging (72), clip-voiced Commentator H. V. Kaltenborn went after the reading public last week with his autobiographical Fifty Fabulous Years (Putnam...
...since he took solemn leave of the seven pigs, two mules, 37 chickens and 13 human beings with whom he had shared an abandoned boxcar on Teche Bayou and set out, at 12, to fend for himself. He became a lumber grader, a Wells-Fargo messenger, a medicine-show spieler in "Tincup, Miss.", a silo builder in Montana, a potato digger in Idaho, a sheepherder in Colorado, before he again settled down in lumber...
...three-quarters of a century St. Mary's University in San Antonio, Tex. was content to educate a handful of local Catholics who were unable to attend larger and better colleges. Then along came John Clark ("Mose") Simms, an engaging spieler with a big idea...
...other, begun early last year, presents famed Publicist George Ephraim Sokolsky, a sort of star-spangled spieler :or capitalism, in talks and interviews on ligh taxes, scared private capital, benevolent monopoly, malevolentisms...
Poppy (Paramount), in which W. C. Fields played on the stage in 1923 and the silent screen in 1925, is still an almost ideal vehicle for its bulb-nosed star. As Professor Eustace McGargle, broken down carnival spieler accompanied by his docile & devoted ward (Rochelle Hudson), he wanders into a village tent show, bulldozes the proprietor into giving him a concession, teaches yokels the intricacies of the pea & shell game, palms off his ward as heiress to the town's biggest fortune. By the time it has been established that she really is an heiress, W. C. Fields...