Word: foisting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Your correspondent, L. F. Southwick of Connecticut, admits he is prejudiced against Governor Smith because the stubborn stamp of his upbringing on "the sidewalks of New York" makes him say "poisonal," "detoimined." And in his Omaha speech I heard plainly on the radio, "foist," "raddio." A man's a man for a' that...
...pronounced by Nominee Smith. To some ears, some other Smith pronunciations are "foist" (first) "poisonally" (personally) "alcoholic content (alcoholic content) "comparable" (comparable). Nominee Hoover, as radio listeners have learned, seems to say "incomparable," "prerequisite," "pardner," "ammilerate" (ameliorate). *Robert Latham Owen, onetime (1907-25) Senator, Smith bolter (TIME...
...commercialization of television, have a great fear−that the public may gull itself about this new entertainment. Last week Westinghouse's Vice President H. P. Davis warned: "Television, in so far as present accomplishments warrant, has been 'overplayed.' . . . Unfortunately, this has created the opportunity to foist on the public, much as in the early days of radio, a widespread sale of unsuitable apparatus, which those who purchase naturally expect will permit them to view television broadcasts, but which will only lead to disappointment and dissatisfaction. . . . The gawkish period in the development of television should be passed...
...radical a shift in Egyptian politics came, and could come, only after a prolonged and bitter crisis (TIME, March 12 et seq). The previous Prime Minister, Abdel Khalek Sarwat Pasha?like King Fuad a British puppet?was forced to resign when he attempted to foist upon Egypt a British-dictated treaty of "alliance" which was actually one of "subjugation...
...Liberal Club--71, Foity-Foist Street Every morning from 2 until the last alarm clock--Free lunch, free air--and the famous Senorita Gadfly. Worth half the price...