Word: bodoni
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fact than fiction on the bill of fare, and the helpings were smaller. Of the ten articles, not one explained a tycoon's secret of success in terms of sobriety, thrift and an 18-hour day. The dowdy "Post Old Style" type was long since gone; clean-cut Bodoni dressed the pages. Up front the hors d'oeuvres included a chatty letters column, with a grateful note from Reader Robert A. Taft, a bitter bleat from a customer who said the magazine stank. (Right, said the editor; it was that new black ink. Printed fine, smelled...
...paper, the managing editor prescribed Cheltenham bold to replace the former New York Timesish condensed type. Cheltenham held sway for 20 years when it was voted to go streamlined with so called Airport. The present Board of Editors have decided to change once more by introducing the more relined Bodoni as part of the Crimson's post-war reconstruction...
Pomp & Hollywood. The charter actually exists. The official English text was printed on 145 pages in 14-pt. Bodoni type and bound in blue leather. The longer Russian text was in smaller type...
...prettily done up little thing, printed by The Star Co., of Boston, who have rather charmingly combined a 22-point Weltschmerz Italic on the even pages with a Bodoni Double-face on the odd pages. This is a typographical innovation that may meet with a certain amount of opinionated disapproval at first as it necessitates going through the book twice. We recommend as a solution reading it through an ordinary stereoscope, which can be purchased at your local novelty store if you don't happen to have one lying about the house. This will make the copy thoroughly legible...
...Bodoni, whose plant was in Parma, Italy, was a master type designer and cutter, who developed over 140 different Roman type characters, and from whose work nearly all modern type faces stem, the librarians pointed...