Word: burtons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cinemaddicts have listened patiently to "The Voice of the Globe" express his boundless regret at having to say farewell to Hong Kong, Stockholm, Ceylon, Prague and other scenes of his Traveltalks. The Voice belongs to a temperamental, blue-eyed romanticist named James A. FitzPatrick, the poor man's Burton Holmes, who is now seeing America last...
This is the story no less of Isabel Burton than of her spectacular husband, translator of the Arabian Nights. But she was at least a match for him. They were as daft, disarming a pair of eccentrics as boredom with Victorian England produced...
...Burton was a cross between Byron and Major Hoople-a proud, fierce, foolish, gifted man with one streak of true genius -a genius for failure. Isabel, like her husband, was a rebel, but of a far more conventional sort. Her rebelliousness began like the romantic dreams of any English Backfisch; it was her great distinction that she stuck by them. And her dreams, after a fashion, stuck...
...great Roman Catholic family, convent-schooled, country-bred. At 16 she soaked her brain in the Orientalisms of Disraeli's novel Tancred (which she reread constantly all her life); and at 16 she was deeply impressed by the following prophecy, .from the lips of a gypsy named Hagar Burton...
...first saw Richard Burton in Boulogne, three years later; before she knew his name, she knew he was the only man she would ever marry. Burton scarcely noticed her. But for ten years, against her mother's howling efforts to marry her off, she stuck to her guns. At length she got him (they eloped), and her 30 years of wangling, promotion, and happy servility began...