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Christianity, said the dean, is a way of living, not a way of talking, or even of thinking. "Although Christ was strict in dealing with the temptations of the flesh, He was gentler with such sinners than Puritanism. The ideal Christian is not the monk or hermit, nor is he, as was sometimes thought in the 19th Century, the respectable...
Next day Thakin Nu announced that he would be a hermit premier, living in a thatched bamboo hut on the grounds of his residence and leaving his regime of prayer and dedication only when state affairs are most demanding...
...machine stopped. And suddenly in Manhattan's lofty apartment buildings, 200,000 dwellers, some of whom are lords of a sizable part of creation during business hours, seemed as flustered and helpless as unshelled hermit crabs. Local 32-6 of A.F.L.'s Building Service Employes was on strike. Elevators stopped running, coal furnaces went out, and matrons were forced to open taxi doors themselves...
Died. William Jacob ("Will") Cuppy, 65, Indiana-born book critic (New York Herald Tribune) and humorist (How to Be a Hermit, 1929; How to Tell Your Friends from the Apes, 1931; How to Become Extinct, 1941); after long illness; in Manhattan...
...dispute. Anti-Masonic groups claimed that he was murdered and thrown into the Niagara River. They even produced a corpse which was buried with great ceremony-but which turned out to be someone else. Masons believed that he voluntarily left the country. Hie was later rumored to be a hermit in Canada, posing as an Indian chief in the Rockies, and living in Constantinople, having become a convert to Mohammedanism...