Word: simeone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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William Randolph Hearst, 82, seemed to be getting all set. Columnist Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr. snooped around San Simeon, Calif., reported workmen building "an atomic cellar for the stooped old gent to disappear into when the next great war comes along...
...cabarets, read Walt Whitman, and worked in the Quaker hospital where her daughter Lucy was born. "I would not bother with thee, Fey," said the Quaker woman doctor, "did I not know thee has glimpses of the Light within." But naughty Fey glimpsed nothing but Railroad Tycoon Simeon Tower, whom she married after divorcing Terry...
...Tower house contained the cards of Sylvester Bull, Templeton Snelling, and Ward McAllister, besides a hundred others." Mrs. Astor herself, dressed as Queen Elizabeth, attended the gorgeous Tower costume ball. Also present at the ball was rascally Terry, who had gate-crashed, disguised as a Mexican caballero. Simeon shot Terry dead. Cried little Lucy: "Why did papa hurt my real papa...
...Simeon faced the age-old dilemma of the religious ascetic: how to gain spiritual strength by withdrawing from mankind and at the same time to minister to man's spiritual needs. Simeon's overardent followers tore at his clothes for souvenirs, played hob with his devotions by their importunate chatter. He escaped by mounting a pillar. Fellow monks fashioned for him a small but sturdy limestone column, then gradually increased the height...
Perched on the pillar's yard-square tip, 60 feet above the earth, Simeon could pray or preach as he chose. In actual fact he spent much time and energy corresponding with Christendom's leaders, settling individual and tribal disputes, dispensing personal counsel (men, but no women, might consult him privately). When he died in 459, Simeon the Stylite held an influential place in the early Christian church, and his holy example soon dotted the plains of Syria and upper Mesopotamia with anchorite-bearing pillars...