“She's in an evening gown in front of a chorus line of stenos, who have letters on their smock-like dresses and carry steno pads and pencils.”

“When they kiss, the stenos hide their blushing faces behind their steno pads.”

“Folded up against his green steno book was a crumpled sheet of loose-leaf paper.”

“He informed people of the importance of Urdu stenography and Urdu computer software.”

“The speed and accuracy of stenography make it ideally suited to capturing the fast, and unpredictable, output of live broadcasts.”

“The chore of stenography, however, was open to both men and women in the beginning.”

“Then he spent ten minutes standing behind the counter typing away on his computer like a courtroom stenographer on methamphetamines.”

“In the old days, everything the stenographer typed would print to a roll of narrow paper tape.”

“The two of them met at the Nuremberg trials, where my mother was an Allied stenographer.”