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...Between the team of Huey and the Priest, we have the whole bag of crazy or crafty tricks possessed by any Mad Mullah or dancing dervish who ever incited a tribe or people through illusion to its doom-Peter the Hermit, Napoleon Bonaparte, Sitting Bull, William Hohenzollern, the Mahdi of the Sudan, Hitler, Lenin, Trotsky and the Leatherwood God-here they are-all boiled down to two with the radio and the newsreels to make them effective and if you don't believe they are dangerous . . . you don't know the temper of this country in this continued...
...bought his eggs by the week, turned them over each morning like so many hour-glasses, so that the yolk would not settle to the edge, start rotting. After three years of London, Fowler joined his brother Frank on the island of Guernsey, lived in hermit-like sociability, 50 yards away from him, until the War. Fowler liked to work sitting in the door of his cottage, dressed in football jersey and shorts. At 50 Fowler quietly married a middle-aged hospital superintendent, as garrulous as he was taciturn. Their marriage was childless, happy, Darby-&-Joanish...
...about 18,000 feet here. Grazing is carried on to 17,000 feet and the natives drive their flocks as high as 18,000 feet. There are a few settlements at 16,000. One monastery is at 16,000 feet, a nunnery at 17,000 and a hermit lives at 18,000 feet...
...Utopia was virtually what Edward Bellamy had described.† but he went about gaining proselytes in a different way. A Blue Lodge Mason, he made his Utopian Society, Inc. a secret order, which, enlisting ''pilgrims." puts them through four cycles and turns them out ''hermits." Initiation fees were $3 a head, dues 10? a month. As the "pilgrim" progressed through the four cycles, he was given short lectures and allegorical pantomimes on economics. Each ''hermit" had to sign a form letter to President Roosevelt advocating production for use instead of profit and bring...
...years the historian of his reign will write, "The Governor made a last speech over the radio, saying that he had caused a thorough investigation to be made throughout the State of California, and that the only poor person he had been able to find was a religious hermit who lived in a cave. Therefore he considered his job done, and he purposed to go home and write a novel...