Word: spencerian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Back from Chief Rockwell came a sheet of White House stationery on which the White House's veteran penman, Adrian Barclay Tolley, had traced in spidery Spencerian the following message...
...Handwriting," said she, "has almost always expressed the age in which it was practiced. In Colonial days, when travel was cumbersome ... the writing was cumbersome and inartistic. Jumping about 100 years, in the middle of the Victorian period Spencerian writing became the vogue...
...realized that "we are not starting this study altogether in the dark. Some very promising beginnings have been made in other universities." But the Spencerian method is potentially the most scorchingly abusive or sweetly flattering inquisition that an anxious faculty has ever faced...