Word: hermits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lives a hermit sort of life. Getting up about 8, he has breakfast in his rooms, works until 12, then shaves, gets dressed, and goes out to some restaurant for lunch. When Mr. Cory is not here, and he is with him only three months or so every year, Santayana prefers to have lunch alone in his rooms. Thence for a stroll, after which he gets back to the Hotel about tea time, gets into his grey dressing gown and now and then receives a few visitors; though Cory tells me he's rather reluctant to see people. Dinner...
Sirs: Some one pulled your leg re John Stink, hermit Osage-(TIME, March 29). The atavistic old fellow has not just come down from his tree to claim $200,000. It's quite a story. Probably too long for publication in the Letters Column, but it will be interesting to your staff...
...John would not be forgotten. He revived. When he returned to the kinfolks to claim his property, they insisted that he was a dead Injun. John was ostracized and he became a hermit. Grimly determined to recover his horses, he took them, one by one, in the darkness of several nights...
...drag the hurdy-gurdy away with the boy asleep on top. Boy and hurdy-gurdy, mule and dog then endure a series of escapades. They drift about a lake in a rowboat. They are jailed. They climb the Alps and get lost in the snow. They meet a jolly hermit. They foil the robbers who follow them disguised as minstrels in an empty beer keg on wheels. Finally, the robbers resort to collecting all the hurdy-gurdies in the region to distract the boy from his long enough for them to get the gold. This fails too when the string...
Alastair avenged his friend's murder, and by doing it shocked Margaret (who was just emerging from her pathological state) for what looked like keeps. So he went back to his craggy home to live like a hermit. Smoked out by treacherous government soldiers, he decided to go to America. On the ship whom should he see but Margaret. This time the shock was pleasant for both parties...