Word: spieling
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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...
General Eichelberger is back at the old pitch, selling us a friendly, westernized, peace-loving Japan-a country of "know-how men." His spiel is no better than the pre-war brand. Aside from his neat logical fallacy in trying to destroy "war potential" and at the same time wanting to build up an army, he has ignored several other problems. One is the group of Japanese industrialists who saw the last war as a fine chance to pick up some markets and raw material sources. They are still in business. Another is the very reasonable doubt that five years...
...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...