Word: marcus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stanley Marcus, balding boss of the Dallas-in-Wonderland Nieman-Marcus specialty shop (its specialty is selling chichi clothes to rich Texans), went the Chevalier Award of the French Legion of Honor, for "eminent services to the cause of French industrial and commercial recovery...
...Emperor Marcus Aurelius (121-180 A.D.) saw the Roman Empire begin to crumble about him in war, invasion, pestilence and revolution. A great Stoic, he wrote: "Soon, very soon, thou wilt be ashes, or a skeleton, and either a name or not even a name . . . Why then dost thou not wait in tranquillity for thy end?" The U.S. Navy, contemplating the atomic age, last week achieved a comparable attitude...
Tonight at 8:30 in Sanders Theater, the Music Department presents the second in its series of free concerts this term. Pianists Robert Cornman and Leonid Hambro will play with Alfred Howard and Abraham Marcus on percussion...
...Vodka. The leak of Cheke's trade secrets made Cheke's own maxims hard going for an embarrassed British Foreign Service. In Washington, the British embassy hastily checked its Chekes safely behind locked doors; in London, Ernest Bevin was "very cross about it," and Marcus Cheke let it be known he was "most angry." As the matter closed, a last-minute addendum was casually spoken by Sir George William Rendel, the British ambassador to Belgium. "If you serve vodka to the gentleman you're trying to swindle," quipped Sir George, "he recovers his suspicions the next morning...
Blum's candy had been always handmade. As a result, such stores as Dallas' Neiman-Marcus and Manhattan's Lord & Taylor never had enough to satisfy the customers. Says Fred Levy: "We planned it that way. We make everybody want it, then make it hard...