Word: duhamel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Back in the U.S., Putnam joined the Communist Party, did a literary column for the Daily Worker, was an associate editor of the New Masses, kept on translating (Novelists Ignazio Silone, Georges Duhamel) and writing his own books (Paris Was Our Mistress, Marvelous Journey). He spent eight years with the party in "misguided humility" before he quit...
...young (34), personable Gerard Cournoyer, law partner and political heir apparent of the late P. J. A. Cardin, who had not been beaten in 35 years. Furthermore, the opposition looked feeble. The Union des Electeurs had put up Roland Corbeil, a Social Crediter. The Progressive Conservative was Etienne Duhamel, who was a candidate only because of the new Progressive Conservative policy of entering a runner, no matter how lame, in every race...
When the votes were counted last week, Liberal Cournoyer was way out in front with 11,988. Corbeil got only 6,130, Duhamel...
...Institut de France's rickety stairs, to the second-floor conference chamber, hobbled some two dozen venerable French "Immortals"-scholars with "glorious pasts and no futures." There, amid marble busts of bygone Academicians, they heard an earnest harangue from "Perpetual Secretary" Georges Duhamel. In its past the Academy had spurned Molière, Daudet, Balzac, Zola, many another great nonconformist; why not, demanded Novelist Duhamel, seize this magnificent occasion to elect such latter-day greats as Louis Aragon, Roger Martin du Gard, André Gide, André Malraux, Paul Claudel...
...Duhamel's colleagues put their cocked hats together, chose instead five Old Guardists-Baron Ernest Seillière, philosopher; Jean Tharaud, novelist; René Grousset, orientalist; Octave Aubry, historian; Robert d'Harcourt, specialist on Germany. Duhamel forthwith resigned. "But why?" chided his late associates. Duhamel's favorites, they said, did not want to be elected anyway...