Word: garde
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Winthrop House talk resolved into a discussion as to which institution has a more satisfactory method of turning out better citizens. Cadet Robert G. Gard admitted, "We have no electives at West Point--we're aiming toward a single definite goal--soldier and citizen." There is a 60-40 ratio of scientific to cultural subjects in the Military Academy today, added Cadet Joseph B. Love...
Other Wimbledon winners in what turned out to be American week: Pancho Gonzales and Frank Parker, who won the men's doubles from Schroeder and Gard-nar Mulloy; and Louise Brough, who beat Margaret Osborne du Pont in the women's singles...
...heard that he had won the Nobel Prize, he stuffed a suitcase, told his servants he was taking a trip, strode out the door of his Nice apartment. Late that night he slipped back in. For several days, while rumors spread that he had been murdered, Martin du Gard worked quietly at home...
...passion for seclusion is justified, he feels, because he works so hard. "My first phrase is always a monster .. . Everything has to be rewritten." Moreover, he says: "Write ... if you must, but for God's sake don't talk about it." For 20 years, Martin du Gard wrote and rewrote The Thibaults. Once he threw away a whole volume when he decided it would weaken the cycle. In 1940 the last volume, Epilogue was published...
Martin du Gard spent most of World War II in Nice. There, or on his Normandy estate, he still lives and works, "ensconced in his materialism," so his friend Andre Gide has said of him, "like a wild boar in its wallow." Now 68, he is busy on a new novel, which, as usual, he declines to discuss...