Word: bellman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...round the world. Every year since he left the trade of the sea he has yachted with his brother Jacob Frederick, reputed world's biggest wool merchant, who flies a Boston Yacht Club flag. Up to his last illness he wrote sea yarns for the Atlantic Monthly, The Bellman. Modest, despite his immense knowledge and creditable learning, he had a quaint way of submitting his salty MSS. to University-bred employees, "just to have a glance over the grammar and syntax...
...poems. Of gods and heroes he sang, of knights and demons fighting by waters black with ice, of flaxen-haired princesses. Ever, meanwhile, his lute spoke underneath, sadly, gayly, wildly. Loud did Swedish people in the Musical Academy applaud Poet Taube, last of the troubadours. "He is a second Bellman*," they said...
...Karl Mikael Bellman was a Swedish poet of the 18th Century, a colossal bronze of whom adorns the public gardens of Stockholm. When the god was about to visit him, in the presence of his admirers, he would shut his eyes, take his zither, improvise music and words in praise of love and wine...
...fable, Senor Alvarotez has deduced the following theory. The bell-ringer, no doubt, was a descendant of the one who received the letter. Even after the university had ceased to function, father and son had continued to ring the bell in the early hours of the morning; until this bellman, the last of his family, had died at his post. Cordially yours, J. BLATE-DUNCAN...
...short, asks Mr. Agate, what is life and why is genius? We fear that even the Bellman who knew all about Snarks and Bathing Machines and Things could not do all this reconciling. And if he could, life wouldn't be worth living...