Word: foolscap
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Slow & Tough. Stans opposes the Administration's medical-care plan, its deficit budget, its tendency to "paternalism." He composes his thoughts on foolscap tablets at home among the African curios in his den or during long airplane flights...
...Mere Vaudevillian." In writing his decisions. Hand followed the meticulous painstaking procedure that he demanded in his court. He invariably wrote three or four drafts of every opinion in longhand on yellow foolscap before the language and reasoning finally satisfied him. His opinions cut to the marrow of the issue and proceeded eloquently but rapidly to the point. Hand's famed 28-page opinion on United States v. Aluminum Co. of America, in which he ruled that "good" monopolies had no more legality than "bad" monopolies, was distilled from 40,000 pages and four years of testimony, has been...
Romano Guardini's hand was speeding its tiny writing over page after page of foolscap to complete his major work, a study of Dante, on which he has been laboring for some 40 years. He was also jotting down notes for a new book on the problems of faith and ethics. To his thousands of German followers, the best news of all was that he plans to resume his lectures at Munich University when the next term begins in May, and that this spring he will once again mount the pulpit of Munich's Ludwigskirche to preach...
...begrimed girl to a man, gasped when she recognized Eric Clayson, chairman of the board, who had donned work clothes to help out). In Devon, an ironmonger's wife who works as a stringer correspondent for several regional papers decided to put out one of her own, used foolscap and duplicating machines to publish the Chulmleigh Chimes. In such villages as Honiton and Devizes, town criers polished their bells, walked the streets belting out the news...
...Back-Bench Boys. Later, appointed chairman of the Conservative and Unionist Associations, i.e., the Tory Party. Rab introduced Sir Anthony Eden. Delegates waited impatiently while the Prime Minister traveled through page after page of foolscap manuscript, to survey the domestic scene. But what about Suez...