Word: les
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gourmet, conductor, since Repeal, of the New York Sun column "Along the Wine Trail''; of a heart attack; in Washington. In devotion to his exquisite art, Columnist Fougner wrote several books on vinticulture and good living, founded no less than 14 epicurean societies, notably the famed "Les Amis d'Escoffier...
...none of her unwilling provinces does the Third Reich find stiffer, more stubborn resistance than in The Netherlands. Focus of stolid Dutch hatred of the Nazis is a secret society called "Les Gueux" (The Beggars), blamed by the Germans for recent widespread riots. Fortnight ago, breathing brimstone, a German military court sent 18 of the Beggars to face a firing squad, imprisoned 19 more, hoped without conviction it had broken the Beggars' back...
Formed in the 16th Century to harass Spanish conquerors, Les Gueux was revived last year by students of the Nazi-shuttered Universities of Delft and Leiden. With them it has become a truly underground organization, with many of its members hiding out in cellars of bomb-wrecked buildings...
...world of letters blinked a little in 1937 when the Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to Roger Martin du Gard. His long novel, Les Thibault, was little known outside France; he was something of a recluse who saw what he wanted to see of the world through a peephole, and who wrote from a photostatic recollection of his own top-drawer bourgeois life before and during World War I. When, after the award was announced, a reporter tried to stop the scurrying prizewinner for questions, Martin du Card refused to talk. The reporter asked why. For the same reason...
...Germans broke into France last year. With his wife, who had a broken arm and shoulder in a plaster cast, he fled to the south of France, where he still is. The Nazis thoroughly messed up the Normandy house, but Stuart Gilbert, who was translating the last of Les Thibault into English, managed to slip out with his manuscript. Published this week as Summer 1914, it brings the novel to a close (1,800-odd pages in all) and also finishes off the Thibaults as a family...