Word: shorthand
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...really so difficult. Not a writer to be nodded over or dipped into at random, neither does he try to catch the reader napping. If he is read as carefully as he writes, he has few Joycean perplexities (aside from portmanteau words and puns); what looks like a puzzling shorthand will resolve itself into a longhand of his own invention, painstaking and descriptive. His latest, like his best-known book (The Enormous Room), is a diary; it is also a manifesto of the rights of man-as-artist, man-as-individual, especially man-as-e.e.cummings...
...longhand copy of President Boover's acceptance speech, approximately the size of a postage stamp, with the President's autograph on the fly-leaf; the smallest existent Babylonian clay tablet, dating about 2800 B.C.; the smallest pack of playing cards and smallest newspaper in the world; a Testament in shorthand, the key of which permitted the decodation of Pepys' famous diary; and the almanac of King Edward VII when Prince of Wales. The complete diminutive library totals over 100 volumes...
...implication, a history, almost a definition, of England. Against its spacious background, the subsidiary stories in Cavalcade have a sharp and eloquent perspective which Director Frank Lloyd emphasized by using, not the fulsome rhetoric with which the cinema usually attempts the epic manner, but a sort of cinematic shorthand. The significance to England of Queen Victoria's death becomes apparent from an incident in the Marryots' kitchen; a shot of a life-preserver-lettered S. S. Titanic-ends, with an abrupt full-stop, the story of Edward Marryot and his bride. Of an adroit British cast which includes...
Career: His father, oldtime California politician and one-term (1895-97) Congressman, long served Southern Pacific R. R. as counsel. His mother was of French descent. He left the University of California his junior year to become a shorthand reporter. Studying law in his father's office he was admitted to the bar in 1888, moved to San Francisco 14 years later where he has since made his home. As a young assistant to Francis Joseph Heney, famed prosecutor, he helped drive out San Francisco's ''boodlers" and convicted notorious Abe Ruef of bribery after Heney...
Born. To Dr. John Robert Gregg, 65 (Gregg Shorthand System); and Janet Fraser Kinley Gregg, 32, daughter of University of Illinois' President Emeritus David Kinley; a daughter. Name: Kate Kinley Gregg. Weight...