Word: documentation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Every Minister, according to the Court ripples, finds that King Edward, when handed a document, puts on his glasses, attentively reads it through, asks quantities of running questions, listens closely to all the answers and only then signs "Edward R.I." The King makes the same flourish under his name he used to make when signing "Edward P." as Prince of Wales...
...leave his friend. He struggled on in Paris, making many friends, no money, began to talk wildly of escaping from civilization to the peace of the South Seas. The idea inflamed his café friends. Somebody pulled wires in the Ministry of Public Instruction and brought out a fine document authorizing Gauguin to make an artistic expedition to the Colony of Tahiti on behalf of the Republic of France-at no salary. A benefit performance was staged at the Théâtre des Arts for Gauguin and the equally impoverished Paul Verlaine. Artist Gauguin decorated...
...Herbert Bayard Swope, onetime editor of the defunct New York World, last week marched into President Roosevelt's office to keep an appointment for luncheon at the Presidential desk. The President, at work on a large official document, did not seem quite his usual cheerful self. Spotting the paper before the President as a Federal income tax blank, Mr. Swope calculated that under the revenue bill which the President had Congress pass last summer, the tax on Franklin D. Roosevelt's $75,000 salary could hardly figure out less than...
...custom until 1813, this diploma was engrossed rather than engraved as later became the case. The size of the document in those days depended upon how much the individual recipient wanted to pay. The president merely granted the degree, and the student had to seek his own engrosser and arrange his own price...
...several generations behind, but to me this is about as impressive as if it read: "Yours, Jim", or something o the sort. The signatures, cursory and business-like as they are, suddenly give the whole document a startling and incongruous informality, almost a flippancy, not at all compatible with the dignified Latin preceding them, or with the dignity of the occasion they seek to record...