Word: hermited
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...occasion would be historic. Poet D'Annunzio, who retired last summer to a hermit's existence in his exotic home at Gardonne would emerge, journey to Assisi, and plant a tree in honor of St. Francis. Quel tableau...
...adulation but inherent self-confidence that made him vault the footlights in Richard Mansfield's theatre one afternoon and offer that gruff celebrity a play. Mansfield commissioned him. With the aid of Silk Goshen, his mother's Jewish impresario and second husband, he spent a hermit year in a fishing colony off the Maine coast. The play was written and accepted, but what it was, except "about the Civil War," the world never knew. Mansfield died and for friendship's sake, John Lord destroyed his first play. Out of the same year, however, came a narrative poem...
...Grand Canyon, along the Hermit Trail, U. S. National Museum men busied themselves making photographs of what some took to be tracks of a prehistoric 8-legged 16-toed animal in shale and sandstone strata, 400 ft. lower than any foot printed strata known thereabouts...
...history discovers in the experience of the race data which alone can enable him to understand intelligently the environment of the present. The past in ninety-nine hundredths of the present anyway, and not to be interested in history a man must go into the seclusion of a hermit...
TIME commented as follows re E. W. Scripps: "He founded the Scripps-McRae syndicate of 28 newspapers. Aged 71, he is a hermit-millionaire, a sea hermit (like the late Publisher Joseph Pulitzer) sailing the seven seas on a yacht with padded decks. Again like Pulitzer, he cannot bear noise; his officers run his crew by dumb show. He smokes 50 cigars daily, sits in the saloon while two women alternately read to him. Satiated, he calls for his checkerboard. He cruises a course mapped to keep the Ohio in balmy climes. Last week he was forced to go ashore...