Word: foolscap
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Labour together to make of them a Unity. Since his accession after the war, II Duce has repeatedly shouted to the populace below the advantages and tremendous possibilities of the Corporate State. Up to this year exactly three corporations have appeared, and those have had no existence off the foolscap on which their charters were printed. All power to the Corporate (Paper) State! POLLUX...
...Foolscap (by Gennaro Curci & Eduardo Ciannelli; Sheppard & Buchanan, producers) opens in a ward of a madhouse. A bewhiskered gentleman in a Chevrolet has just bumped into a goaty little man in an Isotta Fraschini. They introduce themselves from adjoining cots, the former being none other than George Bernard Shaw, the latter Luigi Pirandello. Since they are to be confined for at least a week while their bruises heal, the international playwriting team agrees to concoct a drama to be acted by the asylum's inmates...
...Foolscap, a curious blend of collegiate and professional showmanship, is spotted with as many dull as amusing moments...
...building at No. 53 Devonshire St., Boston. No changes have been made since the road was leased, the office has no typewriters or telephones in it. On dark days the gloomy office is illuminated by a two-burner gas jet. The annual report is read from a sheet of foolscap and the ballots for election of directors are written in longhand. Stockholders are furnished free transportation to the annual meeting under the terms of the lease, but none appeared at the last meeting...
...nearly three weeks with shiny leather portfolios, smudgy glass ashtrays, trim boxes of bank pins, glass wells full of purple and red ink, blotters with round bottoms like a child's tumble-toy, glass-stoppered carafes full of plain water and, in neat piles, hundreds of sheets of foolscap (see cut). Thus equipped the 14 men around the table (twelve august finance experts, two alert interpreters) have been toiling and quarreling as the Young Plan Advisory Committee on Germany's capacity-to-pay (TIME, Dec. 21). Last week they destroyed their first report, which had left them frostily at odds...