We were soon in eager conversation with young store clerks and typists and artisans who were about to set to work at that in which their hearts lay, the interpreting of plays out of Ireland's heart.
What we need is enough typists to transcribe every letter of every salesman promptly, even if part of them have to be idle half the day.
Why the Sam Hill do we have typistsand stenographers?
There seems to be no inspection, and there is no law to say how many typists may be worked together, or what limit of noise shall be endured by them.
The only reason, apparently, for the limitation is that the salaries are so close that if shorthand-typists were paid for more overtime than 15 hours they would be earning more than the superintendents.
No higher positions are open to Typists anywhere, no matter how good their qualifications and educational equipment.
The Association of Civil Service Typists claim some avenue of promotion to clerical work in the Departments in which they serve.
One woman writes: "If the various firms and professions who employ girls as typists were to give them an insight into the business, whatever it might be, it would add enormously to the enthusiasm of the worker.
There is a woman running a typing office in the City who hires out shorthand typists at this figure to business firms.
There is one firm of lawyers in London who allow their typists to attend the Law Courts, and give them work to do which is usually reserved for men.
In the Post Office alone, are Typists recruited by open competitive examination.
There were some shorthand typists whose training cost them only that initial guinea and the fees of the supplementary course of evening classes, 5s.
The villain simply slew one of his typists in the counting-house with a sword-umbrella and concealed his guilt by putting her in a pillar-box.
The heat lent an almost unbearable edge to these inspirations; the office boy, the mayor's secretary, and two typists withdrew from his sanctum as if they had been in direct contact with a razor.
It is, however, desirable that machines should differ as little in arrangement as possible, as typists learn a universal method of letter-placing and are consequently annoyed to find the letters in an unfamiliar location on a new machine.
The most expert typists seldom look at the keys, you know.
At the Admiralty it was not customary for the chiefs to enquire what the typists ate.
At last she suggested that even Admiralty typists required lunch.
She was met by the two other typists who had, from the office window, seen her perched up, small as a bird, on the heights.
What exactly the tomfoolery is that expert typists engage on after they have typed a document, I have never been able to discover.
Not that my typists were not highly meritorious--I would not have exchanged them with anybody.
As soon as it's safe, the bond clerks grin at each other and the lady typists go to yankin' away on their gum placid.
I saw Piddie watch him with his eyes bugged, and the battery of typists let out a sort of chorus gasp as the door of his private office shut behind him.
You will not even engage typists or install a telephone in your office without weighing up fairly carefully the number of typists or the number of switches that it is worth your while to have.
And in deciding whether to employ say, five typists, or six, you will not vaguely lump the services of the whole sixtypists together, and consider whether as a whole they are worth to you the wages you must give them.
No wonder Ernie didn't care to look at any of our lady typists if he had that in the background.
It's a wonder some of the other typists hadn't put her wise.
Even so, that flossy bunch of lady typists showed poor taste in cuttin' loose with the smothered snickers as we wobbles past.
Now you'd almost think I'd seen too many lady typists earnin' their daily bread and their weekly marcelle waves for me to get stirred up over anything they might do.
And say, he's gettin' so he can walk past that line of lady typists and give 'em the once over without changin' color in the ears.
The typists grew tired of having letters sent back to be retyped because of some trifling misapprehension of Miss Grammont's caligraphy or some trifling misspelling on their own account.
Clerks and typists and school-mistresses, and people of that persuasion?
How thankful the poor clerks and typists would be to be in our place!
Shorthand-typists could always find work in the big Questerham manufacturing works, and Miss Collins had only been secured for the Supply Depot with difficulty.
But it was never difficult for Miss Vivian to commandeer volunteer typists from the departments when her enormous correspondence appeared to her to require it.
I must engage two new typists at once--that's clear.
Shortly after ten o'clock Miss Grig visited the small room, shook hands with Lilian and Millicent, and permitted the two new typiststo be presented to her.
Lilian waited like a cat to pounce upon the slightest sign of familiarity and kill it; for she had understood that men-about-town regarded girl typists as their quarry and as nothing else.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "typists" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
