Word: foolscap
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tokyo earthquake, Mr. Beard was asked to serve Japan as an adviser on municipal reconstruction. Nine thousand miles from home, the Beards saw U.S. history in a new perspective, felt a fresh enthusiasm for writing it. On the ship coming back they sketched the outline on big pieces of foolscap. In the twin studies of their new Milford home, looking out on the rolling Connecticut hills, they wrote The Rise of American Civilization, America in Midpassage, and The American Spirit - four volumes that told and interpreted the whole story in 3,362 lucid pages...
Since July 12 Chief Magistrate F. E. Field, who doubles as coroner, has been taking longhand testimony in his tiny, packed courtroom in Nassau. Nancy has watched him laboriously fill one sheet of foolscap after another, passing them round for witnesses and lawyers to read. When his writer's cramp gets too bad, hearings are limited to two hours a day, and Alfred de Marigny fills in the time in his cell, he has told Nancy, composing poems to the mosquitoes...
Some Answers. Steve Early handed the President three typewritten pages of foolscap, heavily interscribed in Franklin Roosevelt's bold hand. To his press conference the President read: "I have accepted General Eisenhower's political arrangements made for the time being in Northern and Western Africa...
Judge Caffey does not write his decisions, prefers to ad lib them from the bench. With an occasional glance at his foolscap notes, he spoke for five days in a row last week, had another four or five days to go. His high-pitched emphases and muttered diminuendos even included instructions to the stenographers: "period, paragraph . . . quote, parenthesis . . . unquote." His whole audience was fascinated by his virtuoso command of the case. But only the Alcoa men were pleased...
...Terribly bored" by his detainment at a Seville hotel, Rumania's ex-King Carol II ordered up a thousand sheets of foolscap, commenced to pencil his memoirs...