Word: letterpress
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...Letterpress, which requires four printings-red, yellow, blue. black-on coated paper, permits vast quantity...
...pale, thin man who calls regularly each week to pick up small printing orders. He had a small plant in a basement in the City, where he had three letterpress machines for printing headings and circulars. . . . When war broke out he joined the Fire Service as a volunteer for service after business hours, for which of course he receives no remuneration. Business became very bad, and the worry of trying to make ends meet plus all-night work fighting fires made him thinner and paler than before. He managed to pick up a few jobs which enabled him to keep...
From Williams comes the unpronouncably entitled Gulielmensian, more familiarly known as the "Girl,"which is published in December, and as most of its species, by the junior class. It is on the whole disappointing, not so much in its iliustrations, which are however pretly bad, but in its letterpress. Every class has its editorial, presumably funny, while there are the usual painful witticisms perpetrated upon the unfortunate class-mates of the editors, or such as have rendered themselves open to their attacks...
...Those who remember the Lampoon of the past will recognize in this number a return of its former greatness, with all its inimitable drollery and taking wit. The illustrations have gained much finish and character, although in this respect there is still much room for improvement, but in his letterpress, from editorial to "Bubbles," Lampy's himself again. We congratulate our contemporary upon its gratifying success...
...suppose it is our duty to say something about the Cornell comic paper, Cocague. Some of the illustrations are good, some are not good, and of the letterpress none is good. However, we must not decide hastily, and if the tinge of vulgarity which is perceptible in this number disappears in the next, we may be led to a more favorable opinion of this new venture...