Word: longhanding
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Other specimens are: a longhand copy of President Boover's acceptance speech, approximately the size of a postage stamp, with the President's autograph on the fly-leaf; the smallest existent Babylonian clay tablet, dating about 2800 B.C.; the smallest pack of playing cards and smallest newspaper in the world; a Testament in shorthand, the key of which permitted the decodation of Pepys' famous diary; and the almanac of King Edward VII when Prince of Wales. The complete diminutive library totals over 100 volumes...
...taken down again. After a drive through flagless streets, Secretary Adams snapped: "If Roosevelt is elected the homes and lives of 100,000,000 American people might be in jeopardy." By radio from Cincinnati Mrs. Alice Roosevelt Longworth delivered an anti-Roosevelt speech which she had written out in longhand. The Democratic campaign based on "distress and discontent" struck her as "an unusually ignoble policy." Said T. R.'s first child: "I've seen many instances of unfairness in political campaigns but the effort of the Democratic party to saddle Mr. Hoover with complete responsibility for everything takes...
...plane that belongs to a friend. Few of his Oxford neighbors know that Faulkner writes. He is considered none too well off, easygoing, fond of corn liquor. But, says he: "Ah write when the spirit moves me, and the spirit moves me every day." He writes always in longhand, with pen & ink, in incredibly small script of which one sheet makes five or six printed pages. He plays jazz records while he writes; wrote Soldier's Pay to Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue." As I Lay Dying he wrote in a power house, to the dynamo...
...made since the road was leased, the office has no typewriters or telephones in it. On dark days the gloomy office is illuminated by a two-burner gas jet. The annual report is read from a sheet of foolscap and the ballots for election of directors are written in longhand. Stockholders are furnished free transportation to the annual meeting under the terms of the lease, but none appeared at the last meeting...
Martha Granger Blair gave up a job in a dress shop to go with the American. She has a year's contract at a salary "much bigger" than before, will write "authentic, interesting, amusing" stories. Whatever Mrs. Blair will say, she will put down either in longhand or by dictation : she does not know how to typewrite, though for purposes of publicity the American pictured her "writing her first newspaper story" at a typewriter. Fond of tennis, swimming, riding, mother of two, she dislikes golf and bridge, prefers talking to backgammon. Last winter, long before she knew...