Word: spieling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Francisco and Seattle, where Wilcoxon made his first two-day stops, each group got the appropriate tea or cocktails, a recorded greeting from DeMille and a 40-minute spiel from husky, suave Henry Wilcoxon. The actor, who plays a military governor in the film and goes on drawing his $1,000 weekly salary while spreading the good word, promised them that the picture would offer not merely entertainment, but education, inspiration, food for thought-in short, just about everything but salvation. ("...A story of love and lust, brutality and kindness, despair and hope, strength and weakness...
...Communist settled confidently into the witness chair in Manhattan's federal courtroom last week and started his familiar spiel. Witness Anthony Krchmarek, a minor Communist functionary from Ohio, had come to lend his assurance that the party would not harm even a flea, much less overthrow a Government. He soon found himself talking into the teeth of some expert testimony from a fellow Ohioan: William Cummings, a Toledo auto worker who had spent six years among the Communists as an undercover agent...
...learn the facts of life. Each of the 16 prints of the film now touring the U.S. has its own advance man, plus a lecturer and two "nurses." The so-called nurses revive spectators who faint during the bolder medical sequences. During intermission, after the lecturer's spiel, they help him hawk pamphlets on sex. Sales to date, at $1 each...
...time out for a sponsor's message about mayonnaise, he drawls glibly without script for 15 minutes. Sometimes he announces that there is no news worth mentioning, advises people not to buy a paper that day. From politics, war, or a headlined disaster he may slip into a spiel on Southern cooking: "Where you go'n' to find better cookin' than in your own Virginia? Provided, of course, you use enough corn bread, and enough bacon in cookin' your vegetables." Even some Richmonders who profess to be fed up with his sagelike utterances and sweet...
...they got or their goddam white crow either." As a young dock walloper he was the king of Greenpernt's waterfront. He got into a fight every night, flattened everyone he ever fought, and always leaped up on a lumber pile afterwards to give the spectators "a hot spiel...