Word: simeone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dowagers. He astounded a dinner party one night by shrilling: "Congratulate me, folks! I've finally arrived socially. Today I got the sheets of Mrs. 'Bordy* Harriman." His friendship with the elder Hearst sons, notably John Randolph, prompted the traditional summons to the Hearst castle at San Simeon, Calif., the offer...
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...
Ohio, "Come thunderstorm, war or election, I always go to bed at 9:30 sharp, " said Ohio's small solemn Senator Simeon Davison Fess. And as the onetime chairman of the Republican National Committee slept, he was counted out of the Senate seat he has held since 1925 and Democrat Alvin Victor ("Vic") Donahey was counted in. "Vic" Donahey is the only man in Ohio's history to have served three straight terms as Governor. Though he beat one of the oldest of the Old Dealers, this tall husky 61-year-old Senator-elect was not an ardent...
...Senator Simeon D. Fess, Republican, was falling behind Vic Donahey, Ohio's best Democratic vote-getter...