Word: shorthanded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Eighteen-year-old Teresa Hawkins was overjoyed when the business school of Fairmont, W. Va. gave her a 100% grade in shorthand fortnight ago. To celebrate, she and two school chums went to the cinema. There Teresa, for no funny reason on the screen, started to laugh. Her friends, unable to stop her, took her home. Her father, unable to stop her, drove her to Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. The doctors, unable to stop her, sent her to West Virginia's State Hospital at Weston, where last week she lay shaking every 30 minutes with newsmaking paroxysms...
Many people, including John Marin, have written a great deal in explanation of John Marin's art, It is simplest to call his work shorthand notes for pictures by a man with a fine sense of color, a riotous imagination and a hand disciplined by years of technical training. To many observers his blobs of pure color splashed loosely on big sheets of crinkly paper are more suggestive of the sea, sky, ships and mountains than all the careful paintings of the same subjects inside gilt frames in a dozen academies. Gallery-goers last week made much...
Because Samuel Pepys took snapshots of himself in various revealing postures and the negatives were discovered and developed by a delighted posterity, the present-day world can never take him with half the seriousness his fellow Englishmen did. Had it not been for the discovery and translation of his shorthand diaries, on the other hand, he might have been buried forever in a respectable obscurity. With a laudable desire to play down Pepys's human frailty, to play up his first-rate abilities. Author Bryant is trying to rehabilitate Pepys as a serious character. Samuel Pepys: The Years...
...subscription to the New York Weekly Tribune with a premium of Webster's unabridged dictionary." Upon his father's death, he went to work in a machine shop, spent long hours reading, studied German, taught his shopmates algebra. In addition, he took a correspondence course in shorthand. At 21 he became city editor of the Aurora (Ill.) Evening Post. A few years later found him in Chicago, working for a firm of investment counselors, editing the financial section of the Chicago Tribune. With the failure of Moore Brothers in 1896, in a situation ripe for panic...
...upon it 400 animals, among them a white horse from Sweden which claps its hoofs, were doing their tricks to the tootling of Paul Whiteman's band. Everywhere at once, Producer Rose, who stands 5 ft. 3 in., was barking directions, conferring heatedly, taking unintelligible notes in shorthand...