Word: hermits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Percy Hammond-"Miss Billie Burke was never more enchanting than she was as the irresponsible Annabelle who married a hermit because his whiskers tickled...
...will soon be established in connection with the "National Cathedral" at Washington, see of Bishop Freeman. It will train men of power to evangelize America. They will preach in baseball grounds, university stadia, wherever a crowd may be had. They will be inspired by the example of Peter the Hermit, Whitefeld, General Booth and other historic pulpitless preachers...
...carries away first honors. Then the final shot! Max aims at a white dove. "Don't shoot-I am the dovel" screams Agatha. Too late. She falls-into the arms of her bridesmaids. But she is protected by a magic funeral wreath, given to her by an aged hermit. Foiled is Zamiel, the evil "free-shooter," and in his rage he directs the wandering bullet into the heart of the villainous Kaspar. Max confesses and reforms, and all ends in holy rejoicing...
...process of evolution the hermit Japanese of the early cartographer became the "inscrutable Jap." of modern fiction. And lest the tradition of his baffling incomprehensibility be momentarily forgotten there arrives the news that Crown Prince Hirohito has be-stowed the high noble and hereditary title of count upon one Hasakura, dead these past three hundred years. By one command of the mighty Regent the mouldering ambassador" and his entombed descendants rise from their plebeian ashes to trail the clouds of their new nobility. The only parallel in the Western World is the tri-centennial crowning of Bacon with the laurels...
...well ask a cultivated Londoner if he has ever heard the name of James McNeil Whistler, or a Parisian if he is familiar with the works of Emile Zola. If there breathes a man who has been at Harvard for two years and still does not know of the hermit of Hollis Hall, he should be highly prized, for he is a rare growth. And yet it is difficult to describe Professor Copeland to newcomers; all that can be said is that he is a Harvard institution. To be appreciated he must be seen, and above all heard...