Word: marcellus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Louis Johnson's own father had no plantation. He was a grocery clerk in Roanoke who married Katherine Arthur, the colonel's daughter. A man of good family, little money and less education, Marcellus Johnson taught his son the value of an honest dollar, taught him to think and speak for himself, prodded him on with the fierceness of a man who has missed opportunity himself. After his counsel, no one had to teach Louis Arthur Johnson to get out in front and stay there...
Bench & Bar. In Salt Lake City, the City Commission ruled that before City Judge Marcellus K. Snow could assume office, he would have to pay up his 37 back parking fines. In Harlan, Ky., Special Circuit Judge Cleon K. Calvert charged himself with public drunkenness, promptly ordered a $10 fine...
...whether the powerful RFC should be continued beyond its legal deadline of June 30 has revolved chiefly around the way RFC had handled its biggest railroad deal, an $80 million loan to the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. The issue-and a first-rate ruckus-was raised by gaunt, balding Cassius Marcellus Clay, an ex-official of both RFC and the B. & O. The loan, said he, was part of a "gigantic steal," a "frame-up," and "a fraud...
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...startled by Author Douglas' robust retelling of parables and miracles, by his free & easy manner with the Apostles ("Peter has no polish . . ."). Classical scholars may wince at his slangy jollities in matters Roman ("Life wouldn't be worth a punched denarius"). Psychologists will nod retroactively when Marcellus has "reasons for surmising that [Antonia] was a victim of repression." Wodehouse fans will note the Jeeves-like quality of Bodyguard Demetrius ("You will need some heavier sandals, sir ... a shower and a rubdown put you in order. I have laid out fresh clothing...