Word: shorthanding
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Stenotype is a small machine with 23 keys, with which a stenographer can record 150 to 280 words a minute. She writes with it as she writes shorthand- phonetically, the words being printed on a strip of paper. Later she transcribes her "notes" into orthoepic correspondence. LaSalle Extension University offered to teach stenotypy...
John Haslup Adams was 28 before he decided what to do. Forced out of school early because of family finances, he got a job as office boy with the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. Strange office boy, he wanted to investigate art and for this purpose pinched his living; learned shorthand; did odd jobs; and finally went to Paris on his savings. Back from Paris with a thorough artistic background, he started writing; won a contest on the old Baltimore News at an age when most bright young men are beginning to succeed, took the resulting job offered him and in five...
...apartments, "joints" to skyscrapers. And human careers either breasted these tides or were swept by them to good or ill. There is nothing superlatively able about the story's hero, Alan Wheelock, but he is swept to wealth, and away to New York, because he happens to learn shorthand at the right time. Contrariwise, the innocence and integrity which he inherits from his oak-hearted grandfather deter him from capturing the heroine, Blanche Holden (whose Democrat father is being swept into profiteering realty) ahead of the artistic cosmopolite, Roy Norcross, who fritters away his talents and makes Blanche miserable...
...service within the last two decades is Wilbur J. Carr, now Assistant Secretary of State. He is an earnest man of 56, with a high forehead and hard-worked eyes; he might have been a minister in Hillsboro, Ohio, if his parents had had their way. Instead he studied shorthand and soon found his way into a clerkship in the Department of State. Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis (then a confidential secretary to Secretary of State Gresham) picked him up as an able stenographer, then lost him when he went into the bureau of indexes and archives. By day, young Clerk...
...chorus, it possessed the usual attraction of female impersonation which means a whole lot to any audience largely composed of friends, parents and reviewers. (And by the way who was that girl who sat beside us and took shorthand notes? We didn't know whether she was writing down funny remarks about the play, or about...