Atterbury, with his priceless polished poll, busy in the main office room dictating letters to a shorthand countess, who has got pomp and a pompadour that is no less than a guarantee to investors.
Illustration: Busy in the main office room dictating letters to a shorthand countess.
When I returned to Opelika Mr. Savage asked me to take charge of the business department of the Summer Normal and teach shorthand and typewriting.
It was at Tuskegee that I first saw a typewriter andshorthand writing.
Classes in French and shorthand are held, but technical subjects are not taught, special facilities in this respect for the company's staff being provided by a large municipal technical college in the town.
I shall polish up the shorthandand pick up the French grammar again.
Then he went home and played at practising shorthand for an hour.
Mr. English, who alone took shorthandnotes and swore to their correctness, reports me as saying.
They did sums rapidly, Doyle on the back of an old envelope, Gallagher on a sheet of paper already covered with shorthand notes.
Mr. Thaddeus Gallagher spent the morning transcribingshorthand notes in his office.
Doyle glanced at Gallagher, who appeared to be absorbed in completing the transcription of his shorthand notes, the task at which he had been interrupted in the morning by young Kerrigan's cornet playing.
A Copy of Addy's Copperplate Shorthand Bible, London, 1687, would be given in exchange.
THE BIBLE in Shorthand, according to the method of Mr. James Weston, whoseShorthand Prayer Book was published in the Year 1730.
She drove into her books, she delighted in the pleasure of her weary teachers when she snapped out a quick answer to questions, or typed a page correctly, or was able to remember the shorthand symbol for a difficult word like "psychologize.
Most of the girls in the school learned nothing but shorthand and typewriting, but to these Una added English grammar, spelling, and letter-composition.
But all those graces were behind a dusty wall of shorthand and typewriting.
It was that very night, too, I sat with Cowan, who had duty in one of the sentry boxes, and we heard a voice calling softly under us.
He was a widower, with lads somewhere near my own age, and I recall being shown about the place by them.
Hoarse shouts answered the question, but they seemed distant--too distant.
Such leadership was granted only to those whose force and individuality compelled men to obey them.
Smoke rose through the tree-tops of the island opposite, and through the new gaps of its forest cabins could be seen.
If you take her, you run a great risk of losing her.
Then Clark fetched a circle for Fort Pitt, raised some troops thar and in Virginny and some about Red Stone, and come down the Ohio here with 'em in a lot of flatboats.
But we stood still, with yearning eyes staring back through the frantic forms for a sight of Tom's.
Mangy dogs barked at our feet, men and women ran forward joyfully to seize our hands and greet us.
Colonel Clark, so I was told by my friend Cowan, held that title in Kentucky by reason of his prowess.
Miss Bacon was a little vague as to the other pupils, but Joan gathered that there was a shorthand class and two other typewriters in another room.
She would go there five evenings in the week; three for shorthand and two for typing.
Mr. Phillips, the shorthand master, was a red-faced, extremely irascible little man.
Mr. Simpson, Joan's perplexed friend of theshorthand class, was certainly one of the stupidest people she had ever met, yet she was terribly sorry for him.
The new boss has suddenly decided that shorthandis necessary.
The lack of tuition was its one great drawback; there seemed no signs whatsoever of the promised shorthand lessons.
It appeared that Joan would receive excellent tuition inshorthand and free use of the typewriters.
Their conversation that night, if reported in shorthand by the Spy, who lay awake an interested listener, would make an amusing chapter--read by the light of the present day.
Jennie, however, did not laugh and did not look up at him, but continued to scribble shorthand notes on the paper before her.
I was introduced to him the other day by one of those lucky chances which sometimes put interesting items of news in our way, and he told me the whole story, requesting me to recommend someone who wrote shorthand and understood the typewriter.
It was noticed that, however impressive were his discourses when delivered by himself, those who redelivered the same after they had been taken down by shorthand writers and copied fell far short in their effect.
Shorthand writers took the sermons down, printed and dispersed them all over Italy.
The youth was serious, industrious, and trustworthy, and inshorthand incomparable.
He preferred now to regard himself as a common shorthand clerk, not as private secretary to a knight: the piquancy of the situation was thereby intensified.
His shorthand vocabulary, for a dog, was prodigious.
He did not pronounce them with the slightest of resemblance to their customary soundings, but pronounced them in the whiff-whuff of shorthand speech that Nalasu had taught him.
A complete and exhaustive result may be achieved in a painting through this sense of form, as in the work of Van Eycke and of Leonardo da Vinci; or a shorthand record may be made, as in that of Phil May's sketches.
As you will see by the prefatory notice, I was asked to allow them to be taken down in shorthand for the use of the audience, but I have no interest in them, and do not desire or intend that they should be widely circulated.
However, he gave a Mr. Hardwicke permission to take them down inshorthand as delivered for the use of the audience.
The shorthandwas a failure; the whole course was a failure.
This friend, no doubt a shorthand writer, took down, transcribed, verified and forwarded him his report.
Here the shorthandreport concludes: I have not altered a word of the statement, a certified copy of which is under my eyes.
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Specimens of Legal and other Professional Work commonly dictated to Shorthand clerks, in the Advanced Style =1/3; Key 6d.
He was seated opposite Breede taking letters in shorthand as if he were merely a thirty-dollar-a-week Bunker Bean.
So nearly mechanical was his typewriting that he spoiled one sheet of paper by transcribing two lines of shorthand not meant to be a part of the letter.
And he could look Breede over and write down in beautiful shorthand what he thought of him.
We all know the young man who writes shorthand comes in touch with the boss at once, and while acting as amanuensis or secretary is getting a schooling that money could not buy.
Some of the greatest men in this country were shorthand writers.
There is a shorthand journal of proceedings relating to Pepys's purchase of some East India prize goods among the Rawlinson MSS.
