These insults are from an era before the Englishlanguage got boiled down to 4-letter words and 2 are "like", for those under 25.
A member of Parliament to Disraeli: "Sir, you will either die on the gallows or of some unspeakable disease.""That depends, Sir, " said Disraeli, "whether I embrace your policies or your mistress.""He had delusions of adequacy." Walter Kerr on Justin True Dope"He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices, which I admire."Winston Churchill"I have never killed a man; but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure."Clarence Darrow"He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary."William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway)"Thank you for sending me a copy of your book; I'll waste no time reading it." Moses Hadasslastnight"I didn't attend the funeral; but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it."Mark Twain"He has no enemies; but is intensely disliked by his friends." Oscar Wilde"I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend, if you have one." George Bernard Shaw to Winston Churchill"Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend second... if there is one." Winston Churchill, in response"I feel so miserable without you; it's almost like having you here." Stephen Bishop"He is a self-made man and worships his creator." John Bright"I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial." Irvin S. Cobb"He is not only dull himself; he is the cause of dullness in others." Samuel Johnson"He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up." Paul Keating"In order to avoid being called a flirt, she always yielded easily." Charles, Count Talleyrand"He loves nature, in spite of what it did to him." Forrest Tucker"Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?"Mark Twain"His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork"Mae West"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go." Oscar Wilde"He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts, for support rather than illumination".Andrew Lang (1844-1912)"He has Van Gogh's ear for music."Billy Wilder"I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But, I'm afraid this wasn't it, as the duck did not come out of the ceiling."Groucho Marx
In 1983, the entrepreneur owned a women’s clothing store in California, per Vox. A neighboring costume store did very well during Halloween — and when that store shut down, Marver pivoted his own business to costumes.
The “Spirit” name was pure coincidence. Marver wasn’t inspired by Halloween ghosts, but by the name of his shuttered store (Spirit Women’s Discount Apparel).
That first year, Spirit Halloween made $100k in 30 days. Over the next 16 years, Marver built Spirit Halloween into 60+ locations that were only open in the months leading up to Halloween (August, September, October).
… acquired Spirit Halloween in 1999 and growth exploded. Today, it runs 1.4k pop-up stores across Canada and the US.
According to Vox, Spirit’s real estate team works year-round trying to secure the best locations. While landlords — primarily mall operators and commercial real estate holders — prefer long-term tenants (5-10yrs), many accept Spirit’s temporary leases if nothing else materializes.
SF should charge more for riding the J car with these outstanding views. Yesterday I walked and rode to meet Ken at the Wooden Spoon on Market Street. We had a lovely catch-up lunch for his birthday and I heard all about his job and applauded myself for being a retired person once again.
California began to effectively outlaw all-white-male boardrooms nearly three years ago, with the first quota law going into effect in 2018. Requirements that publicly-traded companies diversify their boardrooms have been criticized, mostly by conservative voices, and courts are still threatening to find ways to do away with the rules. But across the country, other companies have begun to take the advice to heart, hiring more women and people of color in leadership positions than ever before.
The number of women in control of a corporate board seat is over 50% more than it was in 2018, when the first laws were signed in California. Women now control over a quarter of corporate board seats nationwide. Companies are also hoping to see these same diversity efforts across races and ethnicities, recruiting people of color rapidly. While courts are pushing to remind states that these rules could fall apart legally, other state and federal regulators are joining in to push for more diversity at the top. Betsy Berkhemer-Credaire, chief executive of the Los Angeles-based advocacy group 50/50 Women on Boards, said, “The ripple effect has gone across the nation,” and she thinks that in the next decade “it will be quite an anachronism to remember when corporations had all-white-male boards.”
The Nasdaq exchange, which is mostly tech-focused, is requiring that almost all of its 3,000 companies have one woman, one woman of color, or one LGBTQ+ person on their board, or they will have to explain to their shareholders why they haven’t yet diversified. Republican senators fought against this rule, but federal regulators allowed it anyway. 12 senators wrote a letter saying the rule would sacrifice the economy for the sake of a social agenda, but the companies themselves seem fine with the rule, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and much of Congress do as well. Boardrooms shape the future of a company, and the companies we’re talking about here shape the future of our country, so any attempt to make them more representative of the population is a good thing. (LAT, $)
