English poet remembered primarily for his three-part work Hudibras (1663-1678), a venomous mock-heroic satire on the Puritans. |
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British writer best known for Erewhon (1872), a utopian fantasy, and The Way of All Flesh (1903), a semiautobiographical novel satirizing family life in mid-Victorian England. |
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American educator and president of Columbia University (1902-1945) who advocated peace through education. He shared the 1931 Nobel Peace Prize. |
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n. The head servant in a household who is usually in charge of food service, the care of silverware, and the deportment of the other servants. [Middle English, from Old French bouteillier, bottle bearer, from bouteille, botele, bottle; see BOTTLE.] |
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