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...that the bulk of its business comes from those who spend only $250 a year. With the $2,000 dresses, it also carries dresses for as little as $9.95. For all customers, Stanley Marcus started weekly fashion lectures, and the women who jammed in have accepted his quietly authoritative dicta. "Dallas women don't want to be that overworked creature, the glamour girl. They just want to be themselves-feminine, nice-looking and, above all, individual." This means an air of restrained elegance known as "the Neiman-Marcus look." It is largely because many of the Texas new rich...
Lawrence has always been co-educational, though in the Victorian era there were constant dicta forbidding pleasantries between the sexes. One elderly former co-ed remembers the rule banning any Lawrentian gentleman walking with a Lawrentian young lady without a chaperon. The one exception was during a rainstorm in which event the young man could offer to share his umbrella with the girl. "We used to call them our rainbeaus," the lady smiles...
Lawrence has always been co-educational, though in the Victorian era there were constant dicta forbidding pleasantries between the sexes. One elderly former co-ed remembers the rule banning any Lawrentian gentleman walking with a Lawrentian young lady without a chaperon. The one exception was during a rainstorm in which event the young man could offer to share his umbrella with the girl. "We used to call them our rainbeaus," the lady smiles...
...midst of the tug of war, Judge Stone delivered some obiter dicta that outraged every Texan. "I've never known a Northern woman to marry one of those Southern gentlemen," he said, "but what she got it in the neck. Some of them would as soon beat a woman as they would a horse." Said Bob Conley: "I never beat a horse...
...Cocking an older eye at the frail Laski's furious round of reading, writing, lecturing, politicking and literary partygoing. Holmes continually warned his half-century junior against "working your machine too hard." Pithier than Laski and more profound, he matched him dictum for dictum, except that the Holmes dicta more often suggested the open mind than the clenched fist. Some of Holmes's views...