Word: shorthand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cowleses entertain often and well. Their bedded guests within a fortnight included such an assortment as Herbert Hoover. Thomas S. Lamont, Nicholas Roosevelt. Philip Ludwell Jackson, ebullient publisher of the (Portland) Oregon Journal who rarely gets to the office before noon and. having an elderly secretary who cannot take shorthand, never dictates a letter...
...first installment know (TIME, June 11, Joseph And His Brothers is not simply an expanded retelling of the Bible tale. In the 50-odd close-written pages that prefaced his work Author Mann stated his thesis: the story of Joseph, like all very old stories, is a kind of shorthand condensation of legends that point back & back to an era before history, a human dawn unguessed by Science. "Very deep is the well of the past...
Whose Fault? Only in the inflammatory shorthand of the tabloid Press was that night's ruckus in the largest Negro centre in the U. S. described as a RACE RIOT. Black citizens did not fight white citizens as they did in the inter-racial affrays at Chicago, East St. Louis, Philadelphia and Washington a decade and a half ago. But last week's Harlem riot was New York City's most violent civil disturbance in 35 years. Whose fault...
...work as cash boy in a Charleston department store. Six months later he got a job as messenger with the Southern Railway, eking out his $8-per-month wage with tips and newspaper-selling at night. After seven years his salary was $35 per month. Meantime he had learned shorthand and typing, got a schooling in literature from an old classical scholar fallen on evil days. In 1896 a move to Savannah gave him a chance to study mathematics at night under the city's Superintendent of Schools...
When he has a split-second to spare Merrill Moore writes a sonnet. He dictates them to his wife, composes them in shorthand between cases at the hospital. improvises them while motoring home. Anything may serve to set him going from the sight of breakfast eggs to the news of the death of the New York World. Typical is his sonnet to the Prince of Wales: My admiration for the Prince of Wales Is far-flung as a fleet of royal sails. Poor fellow, duties he must do as prince, Endless, fatiguing, and yet never wince! ... As deep as cotton...