Word: fontes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...members, 35 turned up at Chicago's Palmer House last week. The oldest member was not there. Charles William Smith. 83, stayed in Haverhill, Mass, where he still publishes his Tryout, a pretentious 24-pager. Few years ago the Association bought him a $25 font of new type because his own supply, reputedly 100 years old, was so illegible that, what with Mr. Smith's proneness to typographical errors, the members could hardly decipher his writings. The youngest member was not there. Felix Moitoret, 11, stayed in Oakland. Calif, where he publishes The High Filth Herald...
Thirty years ago an itinerant bookkeeper from Shelbyville, Ill. settled down with his wife, the former Bertha M. Sprinks, and a font of type of his own designing to open a printing shop in Park Ridge, Ill. Last week printers, publishers, museum curators, editors, book collectors and art critics went to the New York Museum of Science & Industry in the Daily News Building to celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of that event, to honor the onetime bookkeeper as the greatest type designer...
...Camelot, Fred Goudy's first font, he sold to a Boston firm for $10. Type founders who wish to buy a new Goudy alphabet today must pay $1,000 to $5,000 and in addition collect royalties for Goudy for its use outside the foundry...
...reason for his diatribes. On Easter Day, 1800, the Lord Bishop of London had reported there were only six communicants in St. Paul's Cathedral. Elsewhere, conditions in the Church of England continued worse. Many a rural clergyman was a lazy oaf, neglectful of baptisms and communions. The font in many a church was cluttered with debris, the altar a rickety table on which the minister tossed his greatcoat and riding crop...
Recognition, with no strings attached. Nebraska's grey-thatched, vehement Senator George William Norris urged in Washington last week. Seasoned observers pointed out that the issue is actually not recognition but credits. Only in case the R. F. C. or some other great font of U. S. credit is opened to the Soviet Union would U. S. producers, still profoundly suspicious of Josef Stalin & Co., feel safe in accepting the flood of orders which Russia has stood ready for years to give on credit...