Word: hermit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Biblical student from Worcester, Mass., named David Horowitz, who believes that "it was the word of God that brought Mr. Carter and myself together." The two met after Horowitz' return from the Holy Land, where he became a disciple of Moses Guibbory, who settled down as a hermit in a cave near Jerusalem and claimed discovery of a "secret code" to the Bible's original meaning. Carter contributed to the hermit's expenses, took up Hebrew...
Probable carriers of these token shipments were lone ships which could steam some 16,000 miles around Cape Horn without refueling. Stealing secretly out of guarded ports, with radios silenced, a few such hermit ships had a fair chance of avoiding U.S. or British trade-route patrols. But what they carried around Cape Horn could only be a trickle. Declared the Ministry of Economic Warfare: "Many battlefields remain to be fought on before Germany and Japan can be said to be in contact with one another...
Ever since the Hill of Jesus began to turn up in war dispatches from North Africa, people have wondered how an Egyptian hill came to have such a name. The Hill of Jesus has nothing to do with the flight into Egypt or the hermit fathers of the desert about whom Flaubert wrote The Temptation of St. Anthony and Anatole France wrote Thais. The Hill owes its name to the fact that Mohammedans regard Jesus, like Mohammed, as an authentic prophet. The Arabic form Eisa is so popular among Egyptians that they often give it to children, geographic locations, farms...
Other profitable Hays legal business included the famed Wendel will case, involving the $50,000,000 fortune of Ella Wendel, the "hermit of Fifth Avenue"; the Dionne Quintuplets ("contracts, trademarks, infringement suits, tax cases and so on"); countless divorce cases...
...most striking discoveries in the Museum of Modern Art's show were Boston's 28-year-old Hyman Bloom and Seattle's 31-year-old Morris Graves. Until the Museum's Painting Curator Dorothy Miller dug him out of a hermit-like existence in a Boston slum, Latvian-born Painter Bloom had been painting in solitary squalor in a little second-story studio...