Word: lettering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their mid-January letter to HDNS, Esty and his roommates said, "If we do not receive a check for $30, reflecting our estimate of newspapers we have not received over the last two years, by Monday, January 28, we are going to file suit against (HDNS) in Cambridge small claims court...
...Open Letter to Fellow Americans-from Linda Arrigo, wife of an arrested political dissident Our Actions...
Last week, however, letters from at least five of the hostages arrived in the U.S. The oldest of the captives, retired Foreign Service Officer Robert C. Ode, 64, had written several of them. In a message addressed to the President, Ode begged Carter to "free us from this terrible situation." An almost identical letter to the Washington Post painted a moving portrait of the hostages' mental and physical suffering. Wrote Ode: "We are being kept in semidarkened rooms; our hands are tied day and night; bright lights are kept burning all night and because of the constant noise...
...W.l.M.A.'s reckoning, business loses as much as $200 million yearly as a result of illegible records and messages. Sloppily filled-out returns hamper tax collection, while indecipherable addresses account for much of the 38 million pieces of mail that wind up in dead-letter offices at a cost of nearly $4 million a year for extra handling...
Rotten writing is scarcely a new problem. Napoleon's script was so miserable that one of his generals once mistook a letter of his for battle orders. Charles Hamilton, a Manhattan dealer in autographs and manuscripts, contends that Writer Gertrude Stein's oblique prose style may be explained by the fact that compositors often misread her cryptic script. Poet William Butler Yeats often could not read his own work. Horace Greeley, the editor of the old New York Tribune, had a notoriously illegible scrawl. He once scribbled a note to a reporter telling him he was fired...