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Word: hermit (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...green carpeted suite on the 14th floor sat Wendell Lewis Willkie, a tousle-haired Peter the Hermit in a rumpled sack suit, waiting for news of his crusade. He lounged in a big chair, his feet propped up on another, his coat gradually inching up his big back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Election: The Losers | 11/11/1940 | See Source »

...clock. To the crowd in the ballroom, watching the board, the bitter, bad news was becoming apparent. Willkie's crusade was going the way of Peter the Hermit's. A desperate, dutiful note crept into the cheering. Slowly the crowd began to thin. On the 14th floor, sprawled narrow-eyed in his chair, the candidate chain-smoked, answered questions absently...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Election: The Losers | 11/11/1940 | See Source »

...miles from Predappio, where Benito Mussolini was born more years ago than he likes to have recalled,* San Marino has 38 square miles of tourist-delighting quaintness and scenery, 14,500 inhabitants who love to give away honorary citizenship to rich Americans. Tradition claims it was founded by a hermit stonecutter named Marinus who gathered about him Christian slaves-the poor and oppressed. Cesare Borgia briefly conquered it in 1503, Cardinal Alberoni overran it for a year in 1739, but always, through centuries of war and political strife, with Italian acquiescence, it maintained its borders, governed itself wisely and well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTHERN THEATRE: San Marino In | 9/30/1940 | See Source »

Poetry-loving Bachelor Mackenzie King spends so much time at his country house, "Kingsmere," that Mitch Hepburn dubbed him "The Hermit of Kingsmere." In win-ter he lives at "Laurier House" in Ottawa, which Sir Wilfred left to the Liberal Party. A Gladstonian Liberal, the red-faced Prime Minister once investigated industrial relations for the Rockefeller Institute, worked out a plan of employer-employe representation that was put into practice by Colorado Fuel & Iron Co., Bethlehem Steel Co. and others. He is just the sort of "safe" Liberal that Canadians could trust to see them through the war without grabbing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Mackenzie King Wins | 4/8/1940 | See Source »

Died. Michael ("Mike the Hermit") Yansick, septuagenarian Pennsylvania recluse who for 20 years inhabited a cave, two feet high, on Avondale Mountain near Nanticoke, Pa.; of starvation and exposure; in his cave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 15, 1940 | 1/15/1940 | See Source »

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