Word: foolscaps
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...Dictator is now a ripe 45 and world-great. But he was only a raw 26 and a nobody, when, with galloping quill, he dashed his novel upon foolscap, in weekly installments, for a Socialist newspaper...
...allegations filed by Mrs. Chaplin covered 42 pages of legal foolscap, and were at once printed and hawked about the city of Los Angeles at a shilling a copy...
...gowning of my theme, when it actually appeared it was only half clothed--and radically differently, at that. Most of the scholarly detail was mutilated or entirely missing. In several places, decent color was suggestively heightened. The egotistical tiara which concluded the new version was made from foolscap, paste, and ink not of my manufacture and was substituted for the constructive suggestions which alone gave excuse and meaning to my design. Lastly, the editors of Liberty, possessed by an extreme Annanias complex, left me to shoulder the blame for their casuistry by appending the following editors' note:--"The article...
...again reduced to postal size,, it would still give space 'for all needed printing and would be much quicker in handling, much more compact in money drawers. and safes and, constantly kept flat, would wear five times as The original library card catalog was on ¼ sheets of foolscap. Experience, showed it to be very wasteful of both time and space. Why can't we profit by this experience and make our paper currency at once better and cheaper? During the Civil War, we had shin-plasters of even smaller size and everyone had made a them cheap...
...Tall, scrawny, she has nevertheless a sort of elfin charm. She is afflicted with what she calls "spazzums in her mind," and lives in a world of her own imaginings, populated by fairy princes and deferential dukes. Later in life she becomes "literary," transfers the dukes and princes to foolscap, and eventually pours forth upon the English public a bewildering procession of sentimental books which win thousands of readers but never a reviewer's tribute...