Word: monasticism
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After twelve years Charles Lindbergh's social status will probably soon be decided. Either the pursuit of the public will drive him to lead an almost monastic life. abandoning the world which other men enjoy, or perhaps now at last hero worship will die a natural death. Some day...
If he were appointed to the Supreme Court, it would be extremely difficult for him to continue this work. In his recent speech at the unveiling of the portrait of Justice Louis D. Brandeis, he referred to the "monastic life of a Supreme Court Justice," and his friends entertained but...
Monastic also is Mrs. Ames's talent for smelling out incipient romances, nipping them with subtle but insistent notes. A young novelist, for example, may imagine that his walk with a poetess has gone unobserved. But next morning both parties are pretty sure to receive a cryptic note: "It...
Peace. So many European beauties of all ages now clamored for his attention that D'Annunzio contrived a semi-monastic villa on Lake Garda where for years things have been made exciting but not too easy for his guests, male or female. The guestroom drawers brimmed with the finest...
This does not mean that Cambridge life is monastic. There are many dances throughout the year. But most of them are small, available only to a specified few. Only once a year is there a party in the true "college" sense--the Freshman Jubilee, late in May. It is the...