Word: hermits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...
...father's 13 children (he married thrice), four were newspaper people, James E., George H., Edward W., and herself. Of these only Edward W. survives with her, having 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...
Wilhelm von Mohenzollern, alias the Hermit of Doorn, alias the Emperor of Germany, alias the All-highest, can count himself the most fortunate political exile in history. Word comes that he is to receive seven and a half millions of dollars from the German republic in addition to one of the former imperial castles. He has already lived seven years at Doorn not without luxury, amusing himself by growing a beard, and the general public by sawing wood for exercise. The fates who pursue fallen great men to the end seem to have lost their grip. This latest development makes...
...strange play of traded identity has appeared and will probably disappear rapidly. It is not what is technically known as "good theatre." It is not very well played. All of which is a misfortune, for the play had excellent possibilities. A healthy tramp kills a wealthy hermit and steals his soul. He thereupon falls in love with the girl the dead man loved...