Word: hermitting
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King of the Gulch. Near Idaho Springs, Colo., shaggy, red-bearded Alex Anderson lived a hermit's life in a mountain cave...
...King strode into the Safe way Store, ordered dried beans, evaporated milk, sugar, coffee, Karo syrup. The grocer asked for his ration book. "A ration book, hey?" The suspicious hermit reddened with anger. "I have money to pay for what I need. You have to sell it to me." Not so, retorted the grocer: the King must register. "I'll sign for nothing," shouted the King. "All the book I need is in my gun belt." He drew the pistol, tossed some bills on the counter, scooped up his supplies, backed...
...Tesla induction motor, discoverer of the rotary magnetic field principle; in Manhattan. Croat-born, he came to the U.S. in 1884, worked briefly for Thomas Alva Edison, became a great electrical inventor on his own. In his old age he holed up in hotel rooms, became an urban hermit, taped his doors and windows and tried to keep the room at a 90° temperature, had his vegetables boiled two hours, wiggled his toes several hundred times every night to "tone up." He also announced that he had discovered a death ray capable of killing a million men, had been...
...Biblical student from Worcester, Mass., named David Horowitz, who believes that "it was the word of God that brought Mr. Carter and myself together." The two met after Horowitz' return from the Holy Land, where he became a disciple of Moses Guibbory, who settled down as a hermit in a cave near Jerusalem and claimed discovery of a "secret code" to the Bible's original meaning. Carter contributed to the hermit's expenses, took up Hebrew...
Ever since the Hill of Jesus began to turn up in war dispatches from North Africa, people have wondered how an Egyptian hill came to have such a name. The Hill of Jesus has nothing to do with the flight into Egypt or the hermit fathers of the desert about whom Flaubert wrote The Temptation of St. Anthony and Anatole France wrote Thais. The Hill owes its name to the fact that Mohammedans regard Jesus, like Mohammed, as an authentic prophet. The Arabic form Eisa is so popular among Egyptians that they often give it to children, geographic locations, farms...