Word: shorthand
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...vetoed two of the numbers. Since that time, like all Porter enthusiasts, she has been willing to accept his music, sound unheard. He calls her the "most efficient" songstress on the stage. Her efficiency includes her ability, as an ex-stenographer, to take down suggested script or lyrics in shorthand and type them for her own private rehearsal...
There may be a few mechanical difficulties to overcome. Some lecturers prepare a full manuscript, while others speak very informally. In the latter case someone would have to take shorthand notes, but this would be permissible in a magazine frankly devoted to reproducing talks just as they are given. Informality would have to be the keynote of such a publication. Ranging over widely varied fields of interest, the choice of lectures should and could aim at popular consumption. As John Mason Brown has put it, they ought to "stand on their feet--not on their footnotes...
Gandhi sat on a sheet-covered mat, his hands folded under a white cotton blanket. A shorthand expert was on one side; on the other were two women disciples, one of them Madeleine Slade, daughter of a British admiral. A "wide gulf" separated Britain and India, began the Mahatma. There was no "prospect whatsoever of a peaceful, honorable settlement" until Britain let the Indians determine their own status. And then: "When this is done, questions regarding defense of minorities, princes and European interests automatically will be dissolved. ... If Britain cannot recognize India's legitimate claims, what will...