In the case of “12 Years a Slave,” the subject is played out on human bodies and in objects: a single sheet of precious foolscap writing paper, the juice of berries, a violin. Instead of ...

Foolscap, a high grade type of paper manufactured ... Blots and blemishes on the writing paper were not well-received by the teachers. School desks were furnished with a hole in the top for ...

Whenever he found more than a moment for himself, he was buried in a book or writing longhand on foolscap paper with multiple open tomes and shoeboxes full of notecards scattered on his desk.

He joined forces with a local paper manufacturer to develop high-quality, inexpensive sheets based on foolscap writing paper imported from Britain, binding these together into a sturdy product.