Word: halliburton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Blaine returned shortly after with a group of neighbors who proceeded to pummel the walls with pillows Halliburton Fales 2nd '42 used a less violent method of trapping the bird, however, and according to Blaine, proved that he had "owl appeal" by his success in petting the frightened creature...
...Miss Hutchinson's School in Memphis, where Mrs. Nell Halliburton still teaches practical applied psychology, the only boy ever admitted as a pupil was Mrs. Halliburton's son Richard. Dick Halliburton grew up and went to Princeton, where he was the shy, retiring editor of a photography magazine. In 1921, the year he graduated, he climbed the Matterhorn, surveyed the world and set out on a career of self-conscious adventuring that few men would have had the energy or ambition to undertake...
...Richard Halliburton fulfilled himself in many ways and made it pay. He batted about Europe and the Orient, toured Tibet, climbed Fujiyama in midwinter. He mounted Olympus, swam the Hellespont, followed the trail of Ulysses from Ithaca back to Ithaca. Women's clubs began to clamor for him to address them and in 1925 he published his first book, The Royal Road to Romance...
...foot Sea Dragon put out from Hong Kong last February, Captain John Wenlock Welch commanding. She has not been seen since. Public interest in Richard Halliburton's fate was modified by the suspicion that his disappearance might be a pressagent stunt. But last week, in the United States Naval Institute Proceedings, was published the record of what appeared to be the only unpremeditated adventure of Adventurer Halliburton's career...
...topics chosen for speeches, the fees paid lecturers, the types of writers who proved popular. It was that the taste of U. S. audiences had been rapidly changing. A few years ago sex and psychology were major lecture subjects, with travel adventure of the type popularized by Richard Halliburton running them a close third. This year's audiences will hear little sex but much politics, fewer accounts of adventures in Africa but many discussions on how to make friends, how to influence people, how to conquer worry, feelings of inferiority and fear. Most astonishing news to hard-bitten lecture...