Word: longhanding
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...Fairbank (history)--"Instead of the old one 'that all automotive vehicles should be preceded by a man carrying a red flag' (to solve unemployment), I suppose now we need a law 'that all verbal statements by members of the executive or legislative branches must first be written out in longhand' (to lower the national blood pressure...
Beefsteak for Black Eyes. The day after the review appeared, 34-year-old Critic Hume got a letter, written in longhand on White House stationery, that made his eyes pop. It read...
...Helen Traubel gave a progress report on her mystery novel Murder at the Met, scheduled for publication next year. "I have, oh, about 40 or more pages typed already. I hunt and pick at it and the process is very laborious, because I first write it out in longhand. I make notes on incidents and angles in the plot, then work it out in writing...
...potters around the farm (he is helping his tenant farmer, Stafford Dragon, build an extra room on the main house). Last week he was spending his evenings reading Catullus (in Latin), dipping into travel books ("they keep your imagination kind of stretched wide") or writing in his slow longhand. Frost writes nearly all his poems straight through at a sitting. "A poem can't be worried into existence," he says...
...graduation. A straight-B student, Jimmy Wilson has breezed through the University of Florida pre-law school on his own power. Proud of his ability to handle the leather straps and metal rods which replaced his limbs, he drives an automobile, writes his own exams and takes notes in longhand...