stenography

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

Last Fall sixty girls, accompanied by a trusty guide, started on an exploring tour through the wilderness of stenography.

Stenography (or bookkeeping) is a more important study than wood-working.

And to all of them she—who was going to be rich and powerful, directly she was good for one hundred words a minute at stenography!