Eliot
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Charles William, 1834–1926, U.S. educator: president of Harvard University 1869–1909.
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George Mary Ann Evans, 1819–80, English novelist.
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John the Apostle of the Indians, 1604–90, American colonial missionary.
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Sir John, 1592–1632, English statesman.
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T(homas) S(tearns) 1888–1965, British poet and critic, born in the U.S.: Nobel Prize 1948.
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a male given name, form of Elias.
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George, real name Mary Ann Evans. 1819–80, English novelist, noted for her analysis of provincial Victorian society. Her best-known novels include Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), and Middlemarch (1872)
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Sir John. 1592–1632, English statesman, a leader of parliamentary opposition to Charles I
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T ( homas ) S ( tearns ). 1888–1965, British poet, dramatist, and critic, born in the US His poetry includes Prufrock and Other Observations (1917), The Waste Land (1922), Ash Wednesday (1930), and Four Quartets (1943). Among his verse plays are Murder in the Cathedral (1935), The Family Reunion (1939), The Cocktail Party (1950), and The Confidential Clerk (1954): Nobel prize for literature 1948
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Eliot Prize-winning collection of narrative poetry “The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos”; her haunting accordion-fold elegy, “Nox”; and her widely praised translation of Sappho’s surviving fragments, “If Not, Winter.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026
“Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer” was an unpersuasive defense of one of New York’s several disgraced ex-governors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
“My grandparents were murdered in concentration camps. And to see how the world, again, is swinging that direction, where there are too many people in favor of a totalitarian government, is crazy,” Eliot said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2026
Particularly compelling is the partnership that arose between Cockenoe, an indigenous man from Long Island, and John Eliot, a Puritan minister who emigrated to Boston in 1631.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
Eliot drank soda from a paper cup, Mrs. Sen steeped a tea bag with sugar and cream.
From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri
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