Word: foolscap
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...keep the other girls awake telling stories for hours after lights-out. She is the brisk, jolly image of a faculty wife; her husband is head of the geology department at Edinburgh University. In 1950, having learned she could not have children, she sat down with some foolscap on the table and Wuthering Heights in her head and began writing novels. Says she: "I probably would never have written them if I'd had babies." At her best, her prose moves as fast as Charlotte Bronte's, which is fast indeed...
...rigging of his Berkshire cabin, Herman seized his quill, scrunched his watery-blue trippy oceanic eyes, put the tip of his beard in his mouth and wrote: "Woe to him that seeks to please rather than to appall!" over and over he wrote down one piece of foolscap right after another...
Neither in environment nor in heredity can I find the exact instrument that fashioned me, the anonymous roller that pressed upon my life a certain intricate watermark whose unique design becomes visible when the lamp of art is made to shine through life's foolscap...
...Johnson Administration is clearly losing its campaign against documentary inflation. Despite the President's orders to curb what he calls "paperwork run wild," the new agencies, new projects and new functions of the Great Society are piling up Himalayas of foolscap. The House Subcommittee on Census and Statistics, which last week ended a round of hearings on the subject (also voluminous), showed that the Government now prints twelve different forms each year for every American, circulates more than a billion all told, many for eventual return and storage. Washington spends $7 billion annually to make, process and store this...
From then on, Schlesinger scooped up information like a vacuum cleaner, recording everything on a sheaf of white 8-in. by 4-in. cards that he carried in an inside jacket pocket. On weekends he transferred his notes to white foolscap, eventually filled three black leatherette binders with nearly 400 single-spaced pages. He had intended to put them at Kennedy's disposal. Instead, they became the nucleus for his own book...