Word: penmanship
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...Penmanship. In Walla Walla, Wash., a week after Francis Drake got a suspended sentence for petty larceny and a dollar in cash from benign Judge T. A. Paul, he turned up in court on a forgery charge, explained that he had used the court's dollar to buy a fountain...
...capacity for absorbing new ideas, more-than-average flexibility. Thus their scripts differ from those of our contemporaries who may write a "copper plate" hand which contains the same elements as the writing they were taught at school 20 years and more ago. This subconscious clinging to the penmanship carefully learned in school so long ago is often an indication of lack of originality, inflexibility, lack of self-confidence-in short, a standstill in mental development...
Last week, an association of stationery manufacturers, with a selfish interest in writing, made public a poll of 600 teachers across the U.S. It was no surprise to them when 70% of the replies agreed that either the nation's penmanship was getting no better, or it was getting worse. In many schools, classes in penmanship had been abolished; in others, kids are now taught to print, but not to write. The day of the curlicue and flourish, and of arm exercises, seemed to be over. Examples...
...Seattle has not even bothered to appoint a new penmanship supervisor since the last one died, two years...
...Angeles, teachers are no longer required to pass a penmanship test before getting a job. Complained a supervisor: "It's not unusual to see a teacher drilling her class in writing and a few minutes later doing blackboard work in an unreadable scrawl that is entirely...