Word: shorthanders
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...Prince Nicolas Ignatieff, who once commanded the Tsar's Imperial Guard. When they discovered each other, the Count was a taxi driver and Promoter Dickson was his first fare. Apologizing for his incompetence as a chauffeur, the Count admitted he could speak twelve languages and take shorthand dictation. Dickson ordered him to drive home, telephone the company to call for its cab. As a sideline to being Dickson's secretary, Count Nicolas heads an organization which classifies Russian noblemen in Paris according to the genuineness of their pretensions...
Eighteen-year-old Teresa Hawkins was overjoyed when the business school of Fairmont, W. Va. gave her a 100% grade in shorthand fortnight ago. To celebrate, she and two school chums went to the cinema. There Teresa, for no funny reason on the screen, started to laugh. Her friends, unable to stop her, took her home. Her father, unable to stop her, drove her to Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. The doctors, unable to stop her, sent her to West Virginia's State Hospital at Weston, where last week she lay shaking every 30 minutes with newsmaking paroxysms...
...brain or a lesion in the abdomen could produce the same kind of false laughter. Upon examining Teresa Hawkins, Dr. Offner found that an appendectomy had resulted in abdominal adhesions. These affected both her diaphragm and womb, put a strain upon her constitution which she withstood until her shorthand studies exhausted her. Then she lost all emotional control. Soon as Dr. Offner performed a second laparotomy and freed diaphragm and womb from their unnatural bindings, Teresa Hawkins ceased her nine days laughing...
Many people, including John Marin, have written a great deal in explanation of John Marin's art, It is simplest to call his work shorthand notes for pictures by a man with a fine sense of color, a riotous imagination and a hand disciplined by years of technical training. To many observers his blobs of pure color splashed loosely on big sheets of crinkly paper are more suggestive of the sea, sky, ships and mountains than all the careful paintings of the same subjects inside gilt frames in a dozen academies. Gallery-goers last week made much...
Because Samuel Pepys took snapshots of himself in various revealing postures and the negatives were discovered and developed by a delighted posterity, the present-day world can never take him with half the seriousness his fellow Englishmen did. Had it not been for the discovery and translation of his shorthand diaries, on the other hand, he might have been buried forever in a respectable obscurity. With a laudable desire to play down Pepys's human frailty, to play up his first-rate abilities. Author Bryant is trying to rehabilitate Pepys as a serious character. Samuel Pepys: The Years...