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Bontemps

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[bon-tahm, bawn-tahn] / bɒnˈtɑm, bɔ̃ˈtɑ̃ /

noun

  1. Arna Wendell 1902–73, U.S. author.


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Frankie Bontemps, a second generation Chagossian in the UK, told the BBC that he felt "betrayed" and "angry" on Thursday because "Chagossians have never been involved" in the negotiations.

From BBC • Oct. 3, 2024

Our own Tim Bontemps predicts Washington will finish second in the Southeast division behind Atlanta, qualify for the playoffs as the sixth seed and lose in the first round.

From Washington Post • Oct. 26, 2016

Edited by the Howard University philosophy professor Alain Locke and dedicated, rather grandly, to ‘‘the Younger Generation,’’ the volume included contributions from Jean Toomer, Zora Neale Hurston, Arna Bontemps and Langston Hughes.

From New York Times • Feb. 2, 2016

It goes back at least as far as 1931, when Arna Bontemps published his novel “God Sends Sunday.”

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 11, 2015

Le Grenier, Le Roi d'Yvetot, Roger Bontemps, Les Souvenirs du Peuple, Les Fous, Les Gueux, cover a considerable variety of tones and subjects, all of which are happily treated.

From A Short History of French Literature by Saintsbury, George