Word: typist
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...nervous or perturbed, but he is a verbal man and responded with lengthy and coherent answers. Alternately furrowing his brow, gazing down at the linoleum floor, or staring sidelong out through a window, Edelin usually paused before answering questions and displayed a calm bemusement when his attorney, the court typist, or the judge stumbled on his scientific terms. He usually called the fetus and placenta "the products of conception" in describing abortion technique, and these explanations lacked the graphic polemicism that marked some prosecution testimony on the same subjects. Edelin employed his hands in controlled and graceful explication...
Class barriers are tumbling at the Bellamys'. Lady Marjorie is hardly dead in the Titanic disaster, and ne'er-do-well Son James is planning to marry his father's typist. Upstairs is distraught; downstairs, aghast. Pale green eyes narrowing in her pretty vixen's mask, head Houseparlormaid Rose Buck voices the general anxiety: "A stranger has been in my linen closet. I don't know if I'm still wanted here...
Rockefeller's dividends amount to $80,000 a week. As a typist doing 75 words a minute or 50 letters a day at 500 a letter, it would take me 13 years to earn $80,000. Maybe if I could increase my typing speed...
...possibilities of independence. But if marriage to her husband was crippling, she is helpless outside it. She moves in with a pregnant friend, lives modestly, looks for work, has an intermittent affair with an engineer (Martin Luttge). She gets a series of routine jobs (sales assistant, secretary, typist, guide) and tries to give modest shape to childhood dreams of becoming a musical-comedy actress by taking singing and dancing lessons...
...been reading the Globe want-ad section assiduously for three months after returning to Boston in September from California with no results. Had I wanted to be a taxi driver, clerk-typist, or management trainee with Jack-In-The-Box I would have been in fat city, but since I was looking for something a bit more meaningful I was getting nowhere. One day I saw an ad that sounded appealing: EARN UP TO $160 A WEEK (BASED ON PRODUCTIVITY), it said, directing its cleverly worded pitch to those between school, out of school, and between the ages...