Word: jot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...program says "Members of the Courtney School have taken tables"--and here they come; with the plainness of youth in their faces they hurry self-consciously down the aisle. Betty Alden has left her Beacon Hill underworld to jot notes on criminals at large and passes by to speak to the Herald's music critic. Tomorrow we will see in her column, "Miss So-and-So came down from the North Shore and wore sophisticated black . . . . Miss Snitz, one of our most charming buds, was enjoying herself among the older people," etc. The whole evening--the music, the audience...
...down to his calves," had bought eight gallons of gasoline from him at seven o'clock that night. He introduced an Eagle Hotel chambermaid who expressed her opinion that half of the Elders' double bed had not been slept in. But Defendant Elder would not change a jot of his story...
...York Times Sunday magazine. Samuel Johnson Woolf, 57, had done this many times before. He would draw a picture of a newsworthy personage and, while doing it, interrogate his subject enough to make a one-page interview to publish with his charcoal sketch. Sometimes he would jot down a few notes about what the person said on the edge of his drawing, but mostly he relied on his amazingly accurate memory. When he was all finished he would ask the famous one to autograph the picture...
...just jot down these chapter headings .... "Treaty of Peace: Failings and Results", "Importance of the War", "Conclusions". I'll look those up some rainy day. Look at all those suckers still reading. Wheece...
...miles a day trying out the same apparatus Miss Earhart uses and recording a mass of data under all sorts of conditions she cannot duplicate. No revolutionary invention will be tested on the hopscotch trip; what aviation may gain are the observations one woman in a large plane can jot down when she is not piloting, navigating, or working the radio. Since Miss Earhart started the flight on every front-page in the country, any accident to the equipment will also be described there, and at one swoop the years of study by the airlanes can be discredited...