Word: halliburton
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Arthur Stringer's biography is the first major work on Brooke since the Memoir Sir Edward Marsh wrote to go with Brooke's collected poems in 1918. Canadian Poet Stringer had the use of a bundle of material on Brooke collected by the late Richard Halliburton (The Royal Road to Romance), who was lost at sea in 1939 before he could make it into a book. Though sometimes heavyhanded, Red Wine of Youth is neither too reticent nor too worshipful to present Brooke as a human being...
...banquet in Baker Rink, the Class of '26 gave the University $150,000. And world-weary Princetonians of the Class of 1921 wistfully toasted the memory of the finest escapist of them all, Classmate Richard Halliburton, lost at sea seven years ago as he followed his Royal Road to Romance. Old grads glowing too gloriously were put to bed by 500 helpful undergrads-some in sheetless cots lent by Red Cross Disaster Relief...
With barely a glance at the weekend customers milling about the corner butcher shop, Mrs. Stanley Coultas walked into the Halliburton Cold Storage Locker Plant in Des Moines, opened her personal food locker, took out a chunk of mutton, a package of green beans. That was all she needed : her husband is in the Army, she lives alone. But against the day when her soldier comes home on furlough the 350-lb. locker is packed with good things to eat - parts of two sheep, big pieces of beef and pork, five fat chickens, some wall-eyed pike, a panful...
Willie Seabrook is the Richard Halliburton of the occult. The Magic Island credulously expounded Haitian voodoo, introduced "zombi" into U. S. speech. Adventures in Arabia found Seabrook among the whirling dervishes, learning to become a trance mystic. Jungle Ways presented him studying magic on the Ivory Coast, photographing phallic monuments, eating human flesh ("like good, fully developed veal"). Asylum was a frank account of another weird region: a New York insane asylum where he was cured of dipsomania...
Sighted in mid-Pacific by a ship of the American President Lines, President Pierce, was a waterlogged, barnacle-covered piece of driftwood resembling the rudder of the Chinese junk in which globe-trotting Author Richard Halliburton was lost with all hands last year...