Word: shorthand
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...Beebe's verbal description of this monster sped up a half-mile of telephone wire into the ears of a pretty, yellow-haired young woman named Gloria Hollister, who recorded the Beebe babblings in her fleet shorthand. Equipped with the conventional headphones and mouthpiece of a switchboard girl but dressed like a champion tennist, Miss Hollister resembled a cinemactress playing a part more than the earnest young scientist...
...chauffeur and a lady's maid, was class-conscious from her youth up. Orphaned, god-mothered by a real lady, she had the laudable ambition of bettering herself. She got a job in London at a fashionable dress shop, counted her pennies, cultivated her tongue, studied shorthand and typing, and kept her feet from straying. Her peers thought her strangely proud, for "common things like holding hands with strange young men at the cinema were not for her." She struck up a culturally useful friendship with a fellow-boarder, a crippled youth who was no less prim of speech...
...work in a blacking warehouse, tying, trimming, labeling blacking pots. Weekends he visited his parents in their comfortable prison quarters. When a legacy temporarily rescued the family fortunes Charles got another two years of school, and later a job in a solicitor's office. Ambitious, he learned shorthand, became at 19 Parliamentary reporter for a series of London newspapers -just as David Copperfeld...
...gave up his job with the Parker Fountain Pen Co. in Janesville, Wis. to go to Washington as a clerk in the Treasury Department. In his spare time he learned shorthand, Spanish, the law. In 1916 he emerged from bureaucratic anonymity as assistant secretary of the Fine Arts Commission. A year later he took on a position as first secretary of the Public Building Commission...
Where he was born no one is certain, but it was in 1860 and the parents were Elizabeth Holyoake and William King Bottomley. His parents had a pathetic desire to make an artist of him. Horatio ran away to earn his living as a day laborer. He studied shorthand, became a court stenographer, studied law and though never admitted to the bar, used to boast that he was "the best lay lawyer in England.'' At various times he was connected with some 20 or 30 different companies which failed, successively for about $90,000,000, but publishing...