Word: simeone
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Distribution Points. In Saint Simeon, Canada, which gets its water supply from a small mountain lake, housewives complained that brook trout were coming out of their faucets...
Newly promoted to sergeant, Cadet Simeon Rylski of Valley Forge (Pa.) Military Academy, who until 1946 had a country (Bulgaria) to call him King Simeon II, settled down with Roommate Richard J. Sands for a session of rifle cleaning. Cadet Rylski remains youthfully sure that happier days will be here again: "Communists cannot rule forever. Despotisms have always fallen. Why should this one be an exception? I can wait, for I am young...
...Black River at 75 m.p.h. while Casey exulted in its power. "Sim," he shouted to his fireman, "the old lady's got her high-heeled slippers on tonight." Minutes later he saw the freight cars parked on the track ahead. "Jump, Sim," cried Casey, "and save yourself." Fireman Simeon Webb jumped and lived. But Casey Jones, on the night of April 30, 1900, roared on to death-and became a legend...
Entering Valley Forge Military Academy at Wayne, Pa., Plebe Simeon Rylski, 21, turned out for the 6 a.m. reveille, swept under his bunk, stood inspection, asked no special regard as Simeon II, exiled King of Bulgaria...
...North Beach," he confided, "has become what Greenwich Village never was. North Beach is an American Left Bank. Small, maybe, but in spirit a cultural frontispiece extending from San Francisco to San Simeon." With a flourish of the hand, he proceeded to reel off a list of names--poets of the technological age, bar-room bohemians and prophets of the "beat, sad-brown and breathless generation...