Word: hermits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...healthy, wooden-faced men in the Mount Athos monasteries were reluctant to tell where the hermit lived. The visitors found him in a high labyrinth of bowlders, a place with a pure blue sky and the sound of bees. "Come in," answered a frail voice (in Russian) when they called. "Here...
...competitors were characters widely diverse in aspect: Captain Smoke, a hermit; Jean Cabell O'Neill, "a very famous pen-woman"; May Shaw, who set out to read aloud the whole Bible; an Indian Chief named Hawk, who made dirty drawings; a charming Mexican girl who sang the sad dance songs of her country, accompanying herself on the piano in the middle of the arena...
...Died. Hermit, about 25, spotted hyena of the Washington, D. C., Zoo. During the entire 12 years of his captivity, he crouched in his black, airless den, fought attendants who tried to drag...
Gasquet Bible. St. Jerome (A.D. 340-420) translated the Old Testament not from the Greek Septuagint but from the Hebrew original; the New Testament he took from its original Greek. In Bethlehem, where he had journeyed from Rome, he lived like a hermit while he worked. His translation gradually became recognized by the early Church with a sanction more universal than that bestowed upon any of the other Latin scriptures, which were, for the most part, localized and incomplete...
AUBREY BEARDSLEY-Haldane MacFall -Simon & Schuster ($6). Some 30 years ago a lanky fop, carrying a pair of lemon-kid gloves, his hair falling about his ears like a hermit's, attended an ironic ceremony in a London church. The occasion was the unveiling of a bust of John Keats; after it was over, Aubrey Beardsley ". . . broke away from the throng, and, hurrying across the graveyard, stumbled and lurched awkwardly over the green mounds of the sleeping dead." It was an ironic ceremony because Artist Beardsley, as Poet Keats had done, was to go southward and die of consumption...