Word: typist
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...nearest thing they had ever had to a free vote. There was campaign give-&-take as 2,781 candidates, representing 257 parties, wrangled for 466 parliamentary seats. They ranged from sturdy Kenshin Izumi of the Buddhist priesthood, which recently organized for politics, to efficient Miss Shidzue Yamaguchi, a typist sponsored by Christian Leader Toyohiko Kagawa. A few Communists had been stoned. The Communists had mobbed the residence of Premier Baron Kijuro Shidehara. One radical had even called the Emperor "that guy," a bit of new liberty the legality of which was under study by the high courts...
...last night of this unique academic process Miss America of 1945 was crowned by Miss America of 1944, a typist named Venus Ramey, who seemed more the physical than the intellectual type. It was obvious that the winner had deserved her victory. She had been cool and ladylike throughout and had played Grieg's Piano Concerto in A Minor without a bobble. She also looked good in a bathing suit...
Sunday Special. In the Atlanta, Ga. Sunday Journal, a want ad wanted a strange mentality: "TYPIST-FILE CLERK, smart enough to be worth $135 a month, yet dumb enough to start for less...
Explained a tardy young typist when called on the carpet in one of Oslo's vast Nazi bureaus: "I cannot do without coffee." Snapped her Hitler-worshipping boss: "Henceforth, come five minutes early, repeat until opening time 'I can do without coffee. Heil Hitler.'" Chanted the typist dutifully each morning: "I can do without Hitler. Heil coffee...
...think the whole situation can be summed up in the word "jealousy." ... (I am a member of the Women's Land Army, age 22, am a tractor driver and steam shovel operator, and until two years ago I was a shorthand typist...