Word: rightness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...make awkward reaches and hurdles with their fingers to type them. He also found that in normal writing typists struck keys in the home row (second from the bottom, where the fingers naturally rest) only 32% of the time, that the left hand did 47% more work than the right. Sample one-hand word: greatest...
...simplified Dvorak keyboard, all the vowels and punctuation marks are struck by the left hand, the most frequently used consonants by the right. Thus no word or syllable can be written by the right hand alone, very few by the left alone. Moreover, 70% of a typist's strokes are on the home row. Dr. Dvorak claims that university students can attain 50 words a minute in one semester on his keyboard (months sooner than on the standard keyboard), that misspellings decrease. Last week the Chicago results gave him new hope...
...stars on Broadway: Helen Claire in Kiss the Boys Goodbye, Robert Morley in Oscar Wilde. For a musicomedian who became overnight a magnificent dramatic actress: Ethel Waters. For a dramatic actor who became overnight a triumphant musicomedian : Walter Huston. For a fine actress who at last found the right play: Tallulah Bankhead in The Little Foxes. For an Alice-sit-by-the-fire who again became the belle of the ball: Laurette Taylor in Outward Bound...
This brought Lázaro Cárdenas hustling home, where he canceled appointments right & left to talk to Donald Richberg. Though the betting had been odds-on that the dickerings would remain stalemated, Mexico City was electrified two days later by an official announcement that a solution was expected within a week...
...right to display the royal arms of the United Kingdom over the words "By Appointment to His Majesty" is granted to a select few tradesmen who must have served the King or Queen for three years before applying for the privilege. Since George VI has been King for only two years, his warrants are still rare. He has granted them to 34 and Queen Elizabeth to 31 personal suppliers who served them before they reached the throne. George V issued about 1,000 (he had nine bakers, twelve grocers, eleven chemists).* Altogether, including those granted by Edward VIII, there...