Word: simeone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Some of the more than 400 saints: Simeon Stylites, who lived 38 years on a pillar, at first 9 ft., at last 60 ft. high. Sebastian, who was shot full of arrows but (according to Author Wescott's account) recovered and was beaten to death. Gothard, absent-minded Alpine hermit, hung his coat on a sunbeam; the obliging beam waited till the coat was removed, then hurried after the setting sun. When Agnes of Monte Pulciano prayed, roses and lilies fell from heaven, "because she never did it mechanically." Philip Neri, disciple of Savonarola, said: "Despise the world; despise...
Then, with Mrs. Shaw, he climbed into a plane to fly-before re-embarking at San Pedro and sailing around to New York- down to San Simeon to visit Publisher William Randolph Hearst. There, while Marion Davies and other guests "drank in every word," Mr. Hearst's syndicated cinema critic, Louella 0. Parsons, had an exclusive audience. Excerpts from her report...
Married. John Randolph Hearst, 23, third son of Publisher William Randolph Hearst; and Gretchen Wilson of Alexandria, La., great-great-granddaughter of Thomas Jonathan ("Stonewall") Jackson; at "La Cuesta Encantada" (Enchanted Hill), the Hearst ranch at San Simeon, Calif...
Fortnight ago Christo Trojanoff and Ivan Petroff, also Macedonians, strolled past the Royal Palace in hunting clothes, equipped with rifles, hunting dogs, pistols and bombs. They were hunting editors, in particular Editor Simeon Eftimoff, leader of the Mikhailoffist faction of Macedonians which has been bitterly opposed by followers of the late General Protogeroff for reasons of which even other Bulgarians are none too certain. Across the street stepped Editor Eftimoff and his two bodyguards...
When the advance reached the Dnieper River, the Poles found themselves badly overextended. Thirty thousand Cossack horsemen under General Simeon Mikhailevich Budenny, fresh from triumphs over