Word: shorthanded
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...prefix meaning a compound of sulfur and ammonia. Sulfa is medical shorthand for sul-fonatnide...
...Lost his right-hand stenographer, sleek, black-haired, punctilious Henry M. Kannee, 40, his shorthand-man since Sept. 12, 1932. Scrupulous Henry, who worships F. D. R., left behind in the White House a file-full of his stenographer's notebooks, fat with more than nine years of secrets; left with the high regard of White House reporters, who were eternally grateful to him for many things but especially one-the night of Feb. 15, 1933, at the Miami Bay Front Park when Giuseppe Zangara shot at Franklin Roosevelt, fatally wounded Chicago's Mayor Anton Joseph Cermak instead...
...year sputtered out, and men in Great Britain made their reckonings and asked their questions: What will happen in 1941? Will invasion vomit suddenly from those scores of angry, bruised sea-mouths from Norway to Normandy? Will the shorthand of Balkan rumor eventually spell out a third front to the war? Will a dozen ex-countries have a future? Will the secrets and mysteries of Japan (see p. 28) be resolved? Above all, will the child of the West plunge his hand into the fire...
Bertie Charles Forbes grew up in the Horatio Alger tradition. He can boast of rising at 5 a.m. (aged 12) and walking half a mile through the fields of Aberdeenshire to shine 20 pairs of shoes. He did odd jobs at the age of 9, taught himself shorthand at 13, worked 60 hours as a printer's devil for 75? a week at 14. In the 46 years since then, B. C. Forbes has made a career of discovering other Alger heroes. Worming the life stories out of some 500 men, he has splashed them reverently across the continent...
...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...