Word: hermitization
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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...
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...
...makes even footnotes funny published his first book in ten years last week. Will Cuppy followed up How to Be a Hermit and How to Tell Your Friends From the Apes with the logically inevitable How to Become Extinct. No one has ever made out a better case...
...Hermit hoar, in solemn cell...