Word: shorthanded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Producer Robert Sparks never seems quite clear what he is about and Scenarist Frank Fenton has written much of the lovers' dialogue in a symbolic shorthand that adds to the general confusion of motive. As a result, what began with a provocative situation soon degenerates into some routine chase sequences and ends with a mawkish off-to-prison finale...
...entries were among the hardest to decipher. John Marin's seascape sketches and Karl Knaths's penciled still lifes seemed little more than shorthand notes made for the artists' convenience...
...Shorthand Helps...
...personally devised shorthand, he made voluminous notes on the island, and when the Marines were relieved in March 1942, the incoming Army commander-a two-star general-took over Colonel Smith's transcribed notes as the military bible for the station. After taking his battalion to San Diego, Smith was ordered to Washington and duty on the Corps' Plans & Policy Division ("Pots & Pans...
Rupertus exploded in a barrage of blistering Marine denunciation. After listening for a minute or two-still at attention -Smith whipped out a notebook and began taking down his superior's remarks in his odd shorthand. "And that," another officer recalled, "was just about the way Smith was. He would never have said anything back to Rupertus, because he [Smith] was a marine by the books. The general was talking, so Smith just stood there like he was in staff meeting, taking notes...