stenography

O'Keefe thinks it's a form of "guerrilla theater" and that journalists in America tend to do a lot of "stenography."

If I hadn't studied stenography I should have taken up hairdressing or manicuring.

If you want me to, I'll go at stenography and typewriting at once.

But I don't know a blooming thing about stenography or typewriting.

I do want to learn how to do something to support myself, and stenography is so—abominably dull.

Bean matriculated without formality and studied stenography and typewriting.