Word: script
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...book-designing is a recent development in printing. The first Eng- lish printed books by Caxton had for type the Flemish script which was perhaps the ugliest of all forms of writing. This evil influence dominates the whole of English printing for the greater part of the nineteenth century, and is not yet extinct...
Unlike Jane Cowl, who recently expressed astonishment at the slashing of lines from "The Road to Rome" by the Boston vigilantes, Holbrook Blinn was mildly surprised last evening, as he chatted in his dressing room with a CRIMSON interviewer, that the script of "The Plays the Thing" had not suffered a similar fate...
...Anderson Galleries, Manhattan. Followed desperate excitement on the part of Mr. Kennerley; a desperate search by the printer's son of his London and New York homes for the manuscript; finally discovery at his English country place. There are 226 faintly yellowed pages in Wilde's exquisite script. The printer's son is George Arliss, famed actor...
...simply detestable, and if you wanted to induce me by money to come and teach them, I can only say you would have to offer me more than 10,000 pounds sterling a year." Another letter of interest is one written by Carroll in such small script that it is hardly legible. The letter was signed "Sylvie," and purported to be from the fairy in Carroll's story, "Sylvie, and Bruno...
List among facts, for which to be grateful the present system of registration in Harvard College. The undergraduate may feel that his name in his own particular script is as legible as in a hasty printing but he should congratulate himself on the brief time necessary for registration. In the majority of universities, registration is symbolical for standing endlessly in line, for answering countless questions and for filing innumerable bonds. The registration limp is as vital a disease as the writer's cramp and much more prevalent. And the hours which pass while waiting in line are among the bitterest...