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spoils system

(Encyclopedia) spoils system, in U.S. history, the practice of giving appointive offices to loyal members of the party in power. The name supposedly derived from a speech by Senator William Learned…

A Boy's Will: Spoils of the Dead

by Robert Frost The Tuft of FlowersPan with UsSpoils of the Dead about death; TWO fairies it was On a still summer day Came forth in the woods With the flowers to play. The flowers…

The Koran/Sura VIII — The Spoils

Sura VIII — The Spoils[967] Medina — 76 Verses In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful THEY will question thee about THE SPOILS. SAY: The spoils are God's and the apostle's.…

Fyt, Jan

(Encyclopedia) Fyt, JanFyt, Janyän fīt [key], 1611–61, Flemish animal and still-life painter and etcher. A pupil of Frans Snyders, Fyt spent 10 years in France and Italy. Returning to Antwerp in 1641…

James, Henry, American novelist and critic

(Encyclopedia) James, Henry, 1843–1916, American novelist and critic, b. New York City. A master of the psychological novel, James was an innovator in technique and one of the most distinctive prose…

Brewer's: Spare the Rod and Spoil the Child

Solomon (Prov. xiii. 24) says: “He that spareth the rod hateth his son;” but Samuel Butler, in his Hudibras (pt. ii. canto 1, line 843), says: Love is a boy, by poets styled, Then spare…

Melchizedek

(Encyclopedia) Melchizedek or MelchisedecMelchisedecboth: mĕlkĭzˈədĕk [key] [Heb.,=king of righteousness], in the Bible, king of Salem and “priest of the most high God.” He blessed Abraham after the…

Eaton, Dorman Bridgman

(Encyclopedia) Eaton, Dorman Bridgman, 1823–99, American reformer, b. Hardwick, Vt. He was a law partner of William Kent in New York City. His major interests were reform in municipal administration…

Marcy, William Learned

(Encyclopedia) Marcy, William Learned, 1786–1857, American politician, b. Southbridge, Mass. He settled in Troy, N.Y., where he practiced law and, after serving in the War of 1812, held local offices…

Scott, Paul

(Encyclopedia) Scott, Paul (Paul Mark Scott), 1930–78, British author, b. London. He joined the British army in 1940 and served in India, Burma, and Malaya from 1943 to 1946. His observations of the…