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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By the time of its breathless ending, “A Perfect Hand” has done what Eliot warned against in fiction-writing: moving from the “picture” to the “diagram,” from wholeness to formula.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
“You ever see Eliot Ness,” Trump continued, saying Vance’s posture “looks like a movie.”
From Salon ● Jun. 5, 2026
Eliot theorized in his 1925 poem “The Hollow Men,” a bleak assessment of life after the first world war.
From Barron's ● Jun. 1, 2026
He cramped badly in temperatures close to 40C at this year's Australian Open, and admitted he "got lucky" when the heat rule was enforced in his third-round match against Eliot Spizzirri in Melbourne.
From BBC ● May 28, 2026
It was the last afternoon Eliot spent with Mrs. Sen, or with any baby-sitter.
From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri
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