Word: foists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Life began to go fast for Authoress Millay. She lost the manuscript of her play, was too busy to bother about it. Thirteen years later she found it again, among some old papers. Easily most popular poetess of the U. S., Edna St. Vincent Millay could afford now to foist off on her sympathetic public almost any callow piece of juvenilia. But The Princess Marries the Page is surprisingly, delightfully neither callow nor juvenile. A Princess, "the most beautiful Princess you have ever seen." is reading in her tower retreat. A saucy page, who has climbed up to the window...
...have this case dismissed and to end this tragedy which involved the reputation of one of the most gentle and beautiful characters I have ever known. Their efforts were in vain, and again I repeat the purpose of the plaintiff, to my mind, was most heartless in seeking to foist upon an unsophisticated people an unwholesome and dangerous book, the publication of which would only have the tendency of undermining the morals of this nation and to make legal marriage a mockery...
...girl on horseback, and several admittedly clever studio shots are all hurled thither and yon for the bafflement of the audience. But you can't fool skilled observers. It's sex, and, incidentally, one of the most abortive attempts at entertainment that Hollywood has seen fit to foist on Americana. Time your entrance for "Manslaughter" and if you don't know what men want, this is no time to learn. The management has handsome red lights denoting exits at regular and timely intervals...
...knows their distant cousins, many New York Negroes went last week to hear a speech by General Jan Christiaan Smuts, onetime Boer leader and South African Premier. They heard him describe native Africans as dignified, noble, contented with their socialistic tribal life; heard him decry attempts to foist upon them a white civilization that would make them only "inferior Europeans." Suddenly the audience sat up straight and winced. It had heard General Smuts...
...Cape North, Siberia, radioed for an Alaskan plane to portage about a million dollars worth of furs to Fairbanks for train shipment, and some people aboard to mainland comforts. With winter on the region, oversea flying was unusually risky. Eielson decided to pilot the plane himself rather than foist the job on a subordinate...