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Updated: May 13, 2025
"You can hire a substitute through any typewriting agency on the basis of three dollars a day." "Yes, and I can buy two cigars for a nickel, but I shouldn't want to smoke them." She clicked the keys of her machine idly. "That is hardly a fair comparison. You can get any number of competent girls for three dollars." He rested his chin on his upturned palm.
Engage the trunk telephone and call up each hotel until you find where Sir Francis Letchmere is staying. Give no name.... Buy a pair of workman's boots to fit you. Get them in some side street shop. Bring them with you don't ask them to send.... Take this typewriting" he took a letter from his pocket and carefully clipped off a small portion "and match it with a portable travelling machine.
"When I was your age I had taught myself bookkeeping, shorthand, and typewriting. What can you do? Can you use a typewriter?" Blessed word! "Yes," said Betty promptly. "Well?" "Not very well?" "H'm. Well, I expect you will do it well enough for Mr. Renshaw on my recommendation. I'll give you a letter to him. He is the editor of a small weekly paper.
The transaction of all this preliminary business afforded Cleo an immense enjoyment. Her front to the world throughout had been the perfection of boldness. And now Morgan found himself doing quite a deal of work, arranging parts for typewriting, reading proofs and trying to understand something of the to him intricate system of theatrical accounts.
The sudden fear of losing her intruding itself immediately upon an ecstatic, creative mood unnerved him, yet he strove to appear confident as he stood over her. "When you've finished typewriting that, we'll go out to supper," he told her. But she shook her head. "Why not?" "I don't want to," she replied and then, to soften her refusal, she added, "I can't, to-night."
If a girl were left to herself to learn typewriting, the best way would seem to her to be to pick out the letters with her two forefingers. She would slowly seek the right key for each letter and press it down. In this way she would be in the pleasant position of producing a little letter after only half an hour of trial.
A quick dozen of questions rushed to Lilly's lips, but instead she laid down a new ten-dollar bill, crammed the slip into her palm through the hole in her glove, and went out, the snapping torrent of typewriting already resumed.
My suspicions were all confirmed by his peculiar action in typewriting his signature, which, of course, inferred that his handwriting was so familiar to her that she would recognize even the smallest sample of it. You see all these isolated facts, together with many minor ones, all pointed in the same direction." "And how did you verify them?"
Concert work of this sort seems to have the effect of speeding up those who would ordinarily lag, even though they might get the right result. The most skillful teachers of typewriting count or clap their hands or use the phonograph for the sake of speeding up their students.
It would injure his business. Later, she got in an office. She had learned at night to do typewriting, and there one of the men was kind to her, began to give her a little pleasure every now and then. She was young. It was dreary where she lived, and she craved a bit of brightness.
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