spizerinktum
n.— «“On to Washington” will be the next keynote of the program next Thursday with old reliable Kiwanian Frank Key furnishing the “spizerinktum.”» —“Kiwanis Club” by Jack Wright, Frank Rogers Morning News (Florence, S.C.) May 25, 1936. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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