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...President is authorized to employ in his official household . . . one private secretary ... at $3,500 ... one assistant secretary who shall be a shorthand writer . . . two executive clerks . . . one steward . . . one messenger...
...been appointed Governor General of the Philippines, was now posing for sound films with brown Sergio Osmena, president pro tem. of the Philippine Senate. With him to his new post was going his daughter Grace, 20, who takes after her mother and who has been studying typing and shorthand to fit herself to be one of her father's secretaries...
...memories* were of creaking farm carts marked with rude white crosses, piled high with corpses of the famine on their way to common burial in the lime pits. These were not memories to make any boy a loyal British citizen. At the age of 14 he had taught himself shorthand. At 17 he made his way to England, worked as a railway clerk, a reporter. He first attracted attention by the brilliance of the political articles which he sent to his uncle's Dublin paper, The Nation...
...libretto of which she, theatrer wise, pronounced impossible. But she recognized instantly Forrest's genius for music, told him to find another libretto, a lovestory, and try again. Camille came to his mind because he knew of a similar tragedy which involved two students in a Chicago shorthand school. "But Camille," Mary Garden objected, "is French. You could not expect me to sing it in English." Hamilton Forrest forthwith went to France, learned the language, studied with Composer Maurice Ravel, wrote his opera and had it accepted by the opera company headed by the light & power tycoon whose errands...
...living by meticulously etching French cathedrals in the Whistler manner. In reaction to this intricate scratchwork he would go to the country, paint rapidly with loose splashes of color. Alfred Stieglitz had little sympathy with the Whistlerian etchings, but greatly admired the Marin water colors which were in reality shorthand notes for pictures by a man with a laborious technical background, an uncanny sense of color...