Word: hermit
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...command, was first across the walls when they stormed Jerusalem. Other notables: lackadaisical Duke Robert Short Breeches of Normandy, red-haired Bohe-mund, Tancred, "finest sword of the Normans," the first to see Jerusalem; Raymond of Toulouse, Stephen of Meaux, Bishop Adhemar, jovial priest, stout-hearted soldier, Peter the Hermit...
...against Prohibition-met, 50 strong, in Parlor B of the Hollenden Hotel. The Crusaders are an organization of wealthy young men dedicated to the "cause of sanity." Commander-in-chief is Fred G. Clark, President of Fred G. Clark ("Hyvis") Oil Co., music writer, wit, comedy player in the Hermit Club's annual frolic. Cried Crusader Clark: "We're not wet, but we are opposed to things as they are today." The Crusaders pledged $50,000 to recruit 100,000 young Clevelanders to work for Temperance as contrasted to Prohibition, planned to organize similar "battalions" in all cities...
...energies in such a primitive manner is becoming obvious to everyone, even peace delegates with their chess-like conception of statesmanship. But at the first suggestion to destroy these relics of a barbarian age, to junk battleships and to stop building them, to abolish the submarine, like wary hermit-crabs the delegations retire within their shells. And when they venture to creep out again, it is with the cautious suggestion that weapons of war should be merely limited. Carried to its logical conclusion the absurdity is almost funny, and admirals might fight their duels with swords. But the situation...
...healthy, wooden-faced men in the Mount Athos monasteries were reluctant to tell where the hermit lived. The visitors found him in a high labyrinth of bowlders, a place with a pure blue sky and the sound of bees. "Come in," answered a frail voice (in Russian) when they called. "Here...
...competitors were characters widely diverse in aspect: Captain Smoke, a hermit; Jean Cabell O'Neill, "a very famous pen-woman"; May Shaw, who set out to read aloud the whole Bible; an Indian Chief named Hawk, who made dirty drawings; a charming Mexican girl who sang the sad dance songs of her country, accompanying herself on the piano in the middle of the arena...