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...with indignation: "A new expression . . . is demanded ... by these peasants of me, a man of Rome!" In 396, with the barbarians pressing in on all sides, Jerome sadly wrote: "Romanus orbis ruit [the world of Rome is destroyed]." In 416 the troubles of the times were brought to his doorstep. A band of Pelagian heretics, whom he had recently attacked in his writings, assaulted and wrecked his monastery. Jerome spent three or four years in refuge nearby. Then, weary with age and controversy, the holy but irascible hermit died...
...Senate Crime Investigating Committee brought out some embarrassing facts about the political connections of gamblers in Florida. The governor just happened to be out. When Estes heard that a former Florida National Guard chief had refused to attend a Kefauver house rally, he was on the man's doorstep at 7 a.m. He was invited in, and talked over coffee for almost an hour. Said his startled host: "He almost convinced...
...carefully whitened doorstep of a tiny terrace home in the Lancashire cotton city of Bolton (pop. 200,000), a milkman set down three pint bottles. "They usually take four," he said, "but with one or two of them on short time, they're down to two or three." At the grocery store down the street, Bolton housewives were no longer buying their full egg ration (one per week). A big bakery, supplying Bolton's suburbs, cut its daily bake by 1,000 loaves...
...most exciting event in Will's life occurred when somebody left a baby on the doorstep; Will took the child in and adopted it. When his boss at the hotel died, Will married the widow, not because he loyed her but because they were both lonely and she was somebody to help take care of the boy. Success came along, somehow. Will got into the egg business, made money and built a fancy big house. Out of boredom more than anything else, he took to visiting Omaha on weekends, and struck up with a hotel floozie. When his wife...
Like any country editors, the Roses have plenty of problems dumped on their doorstep. One night Editor Rose got routed out of bed by Screenwriter Les River, who wailed that an automobile had killed his cat, leaving her four nursing kittens starving. Rose found a foster mother. Now the cat-loving James Masons oblige in such emergencies. When the noise of gravel trucks disturbed the home rehearsals of Cinemactress Elsa Lanchester (Mrs. Charles Laughton), Rose persuaded the truckers to change their hours. In last week's storm, the Crier sprang into action, helped to set up an aid station...