Word: scribing
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...violin. As he had been taught, so he played at his debut-the Elgar Concerto & Tschaikovsky's in D with 60 men from the Philharmonic, a Debussy-Paganini-Bethoven group with the piano. His tone was full, his fingers fleet, his ways pleasing. Critics used superlatives to de scribe his virtuosity, bewailed that he had been unable to grasp more of his teacher's glowing intelligence as yet unmatched by any pupil...
When a person has something to say, the bespectacled scribe can generally be relied upon to extract the important features of the matter. Perhaps it is his glasses, or his ingratiating air, or his professed fondness for aesthetics, which gives him the faculty of getting statements on vital issues where others have failed lamentably. With a minimum of apparent effort, he covers as much ground as any of his fellow football recorders...
...back of the University eleven, who wakes up Mr. Bingham at midnight, who knows just what the Harvard stroke told the cox at the 3 3-4 mile mark, and who talks with Tad Jones before Fishwich has even finished dressing. Such a man, it is obvious, is no scribe, no more athletic back. He is an artist, an author, a man with important contacts...
...that's all I get for my comedy", sighted Jack, as the scribe packed up and departed...
Lately this "greatest golfer the world ever saw," assisted by a news scribe who long ago made the Jones career his own, has found time to write an autobiography.* The book reads as though Rob Jones had dropped in after Sunday supper on his good neighbors, the U. S. public, and fallen to swapping reminiscences, informally, naturally, letting himself be drawn out but not without deprecations such as, "Oh, I don't know about that, now," and confessions like, "I was cocky, all right...