Word: herculesapollo
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Dates: during 1926-1926
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...kindly widow. She sat by her kitchen fire, her skirt drawn up to her knees, her toes resting on a woolworked cushion. She was to admit to her home that night, against her will and yet somehow with all her heart, a vast foreigner: a simple Swede, a blond HerculesApollo, whose strangely formal card contained the words: Hjalmar Johanson, Gymnastic Instructor. The storm passed in the night. But only with convulsive effort and in the space of a year did Polcastrians rid themselves of Harmer John, as they, first in affection, later in derision and finally in hate, miscalled...
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