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...yacht Prudence in Boston harbor three years ago. they searched in vain for contraband until one chanced to unscrew an electric light bulb. At once panels slid back, revealing thousands of dollars worth of liquor. In Rettich's Warwick house the raiders scraped some whitewash off a brick pillar in the cellar, found and turned a key. A great slab of concrete rose quietly out of the floor, opening the way to a subcellar. Steps led from the subcellar to a huge vault in which were found three machine guns, 25 Winchester rifles, pistols, much ammunition...
...known existence of Christ's tomb, the manger in which he was laid at Bethlehem and the very hillside on which the shepherds slept that night. But it was downright "fantastic" to be told by a Franciscan in "Mary's house" that "the Virgin stood at this pillar, and Gabriel at that pillar when he announced to her that she would be mother of the Savior...
There the full splendor of the Widener Library is revealed. In an atmosphere of medieval picturesqueness sit hundreds of students at tables. Diligently they pore over their books, sitting stiffly upright, apparently prevented from relaxation by an overweening lust for knowledge. Like St. Simeon Stylites on his pillar, they have abandoned the comforts of this world in devotion to their ideal. Into this romantic dungeon the clangor and lurid brightness of external civilization do not penetrate...
First and most famed of the "Pillar Hermits" was St. Simeon Stylites (390-459 A. D.). According to Theodoret, a contemporary historian. Simeon was ejected from a monastery for practicing extreme austerities, took up his abode atop a 9-ft. pillar, made higher & higher pillars until he was finally ensconced on top of a 60-ft. column on which he lived for 36 years without once descending. The holy man hauled his food up with a rope, or it was carried up a ladder by his disciples, who founded monasteries nearby. Twentieth Century French diggers in Syria explored the great...
...industry, could be found on practically every list of tycoons picked by the President to do this or that public job. The country had every reason to believe that grey-haired old Dan Willard, with the confidence of Labor and his mildly liberal views, was the stanchest pillar in a quaking railroad world...