Word: shorthanded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Once he was a shorthand champion who used to take dictation from Bernard Baruch. Now he takes it from nobody. Billy Rose, who is about the size of a Broadway boutonniere, is a self-made showman, songwriter (Million Dollar Baby) and saloonkeeper. He is also a zealous art collector. Last week the bantam Barnum, jack of many a theatrical trade, was mastering a new one. As an offbeat Broadway columnist who pays to be published, he had received offers from two newspaper syndicates who wanted to pay him instead...
...office boy, clerk, and, at 20, shorthand reporter of parliamentary debates, Dickens struggled frenziedly to climb out of poverty. His inspiration was his love for Maria Beadnell, a City bank manager's cold, flirtatious daughter, who aroused "whatever of fancy, romance, passion, aspiration and determination belong to me." When, after some two years' courtship, he realized that Maria was making a fool of him, Dickens buried her away as deeply as his childhood miseries...
...Firm Line. Jimmy Byrnes himself also had to be considered. The onetime court reporter and shorthand expert, onetime Representative, onetime Senator, onetime Supreme Court Justice, onetime "Assistant President," full-time compromiser, had made eloquent and forceful speeches before. Critics wondered whether Jimmy Byrnes was as big as his words...
Danger Signal (Warner) is a yarn about a family of ardent cinemaddicts who are menaced by a type that they should have been adequately warned against: the sleek, mustachioed lady-killer. Armed with a revolver, an engagement ring ironically inscribed "Till death us do part" and a shorthand pad on which his victims write their own suicide notes, the killer (Zachary Scott) goes about victimizing the girls for whatever he can get: love, money, auto rides, or free psychiatric advice. As soon as his ladies begin to lose their first attraction, he reaches for the shorthand pad and the revolver...
...artists developed a kind of pictorial shorthand. Recalls Shinn: "Sketches, if any, made on the scene, were hurried; usually mere markings with numerals shot off at tangents. If a [building] fire was to be covered, then a marginal notation . . . 18 stories and seven across, representing windows. A quick note of some detail of a cornice or architectural peculiarity was drawn in more carefully. More crosses where fire blazed in windows." Back at the drawing-boards the sketches became detailed pictures...