Scarron, 1
Stein, 7
Toscanini, 3
Trollope, A., 1
Victoria, 7
Voltaire, 3
Walpole, H., 1
aristocrats. See also royalty
Condorcet, 1
Jones, J. P., 2
Korda, 2
Lincoln, A., 28
Somerset, 1
Tennyson, 5
arithmetic
Alexander I, 3
Armenians
Arlen, 2
arrest
Jackson, A., 2
Orsay, 1
arrogance
Alcibiades, 1
Ali, 2–3
Galbraith, 1
Howe, J. W., 1
Joyce, James, 2, 5
Julia, 4
Khrushchev, 3
Parker, D., 3
Somerset, 1
arson
Nero, 2
art
Beaton, 1
Beckford, 2
Brown, J. M., 2
Caroto, 1
Cather, 1
George VI, 1
Matisse, 1–2
Picasso, 4, 6, 12–13
Stillman, 1
Turner, 3
art collections
Beckford, 2
art dealers
Duveen, 1
Morgan, J. P., Sr., 1
arthritis
Renoir, 3–4
artificial limbs
Bader, 1
de Seversky, 1
artiness
Wilder, 2
artisans
Segovia, 1
artists, visual. See also sculptors
Apelles, 1
Bellows, 1
Blake, W., 3
Brancusi, 1
Caroto, 2
Cassatt, 1
Cézanne, 1
Churchill, W., 33–34
Constable, 1–2
Corot, 2–3
Dali, 4–5
Degas, 2
Eakins, 1
Fuseli, 2
Gainsborough, 1
Giotto, 1–3
Hokusai, 1
Homer, 1
Kneller, 2
Koppay, 1
Leighton, 1
Liebermann, 1
Marie Antoinette, 2
Matisse, 1
Medici, 1
Michelangelo, 3, 5
Modigliani, 1
Monet, 1–2
Morse, 2
Northcote, 1
Parrish, 1
Perugino, 1
Picasso, 1–20
Poussin, 1
Raphael, 1
Renoir, 1–4
Reynolds, J., 1
Robert, L., 1
Rossetti, 1
Sargent, J. S., 1
Stein, 9
Tintoretto, 1
Titian, 2
Turner, 1–7
Uccello, 1
Whistler, 4, 11–12, 16–17
Wilde, 8
Wilson, R., 1
Zeuxis, 1
ascetics
Ammonius, 1
Gandhi, 1–2
Zoeller, 1
assassinations. See also execution; murder
Alfonso XIII, 1
Caesar, 7, 9
Clemenceau, 8
de Gaulle, 10
Elizabeth I, 5
Francis Ferdinand, 1
Garfield, 1
Henry II, 1
Lincoln, R. T., 1
McKinley, 2
Reagan, R., 9, 15–16
Roosevelt, T., 5
Wellington, 9
assaults
Houdini, 3
Astrodome
Rainier III, 1
astrologers
Cardano, 1
Louis XI, 1
astronauts
Anders, 1–2
Armstrong, N., 1–3
astronomers
Galileo, 1
Herschel, 1
Kepler, 1
Messier, 1
astronomy
Alfonso X, 1
Einstein, 14
George III, 1
Newton, 1
Roosevelt, T., 3
Thales, 1
asylums
Wolf, 1
atheists
Buñuel, 1
Tolstoy, 2
athletes. See also sports, specific sports
Nurmi, 1
Ruth, 1
Thorpe, 1
Thronberry, 1
Zaharias, 1
atomic weapons
Leahy, 1
Oppenheimer, 2
attention
Vidal, 1
auctions
Cherubini, 2
Degas, 2
audacity
Wild, 1
audiences
Acton, 1
Addison, 1
Albert, Prince, 1
Alexander, George, 1
Antheil, 1
Auden, 3, 5
Barrymore, J., 8
Benchley, 8
Bernhardt, 1, 3
Bing, 8
Blumenthal, 1
Brendel, 1
Bülow, 2
Burton, R., 2
Calhern, 1
Churchill, W., 26
Clay, H., 6
Coolidge, 8
Cowl, 1
Diaghilev, 1
Dumas père, 6
Edward VII, 7
Feydeau, 4
Fiske, 2
Frederick William IV, 2
Garrison, 1
George II, 1
Goldwyn, 15
Hawthorne, Nigel, 1
Henze, 1
Hitchcock, 5
Kaufman, 4, 10
Klemperer, 3
Lamb, Charles, 4
Mingus, 1
Parker, D., 1
Prokofiev, 1
Rachel, 5
Rubinstein, Arthur, 2
Schleiermacher, 1
Schnabel, 3
Siddons, 5
Stern, 1
Stokowski, 2
Taylor, L., 1
Twain, 6
Tyson, 1
Voltaire, 2
Wilde, 6
auditions
Astaire, 1
Australia
Kemble, J. P., 2
Austrians
Francis Ferdinand, 1
authority
Allen, E., 2
Chesterton, 12
autobiography
Kerr, D., 1
autographs. See also inscriptions
Beerbohm, 1
Bennett, A., 5
Copland, 1
Hoover, 3
Hugo, 3
Jackson, R., 1
Kipling, 2
Lincoln, A., 29
Nash, 1
Nixon, 8
Paige, 1
Picasso, 9–10
Prokofiev, 1
Rachel, 2
Schweitzer, 5
Shaw, 17–18
automation
Reuther, 1
automobiles
Arno, 1
Reuther, 1
aviators
Corrigan, 1
awards
Bismarck, 3
Cotten, 1
Garrison, 1
Newman, 1
awkwardness
Nixon, 7
babies
Churchill, W., 25
bachelors
Chevalier, 1
Hart, 1
Holmes, O. W., Jr., 2
Kennedy, J. F., 1
Nivernais, 1
bailiffs
Dumas père, 4
Steele, 1
baldness
Aeschylus, 1
Burns, 4
Campbell, Mrs. P., 8
Connelly, 1
Marx, G., 5
Mary, Queen of Scots, 1
Philip, Prince, 1
Steinberg, 1
&n
bsp; ballet. See also dancers
de Valois, 1
Diaghilev, 1–3
Nijinsky, 1
Stravinsky, 10
banality
Coolidge, 6–7, 17
Band-Aids
Simon, 1
bankers
Eliot, T. S., 1
Napoleon I, 12
bankruptcy
Joyce, John, 3
banks
Marx, G., 12
Thurber, 3
barbers
Archelaus, 1
Frederick Augustus I, 1
Macaulay, 3
bargaining
Britten, 1
Clemenceau, 1
baseball
Aaron, 1
Alexander, G. C., 1
Allen, D., 1
Berg, 1
Berra, 1
Blomberg, 1
Brown, G., 1–2
Brunet, 1
Caray, 1–2
Colavito, 1
Dean, 1
Durocher, 1
Eliot, C. W., 1
Feller, 1
Finley, 1
Garvey, 1
Gehrig, 1
Giamatti, 1
Gibson, 1
Gossage, 1
Grimm, 1
Held, 1
Hoy, 1
Jackson, J., 1
Jackson, R., 1–2
Jolley, 1
McGraw, 1
Mack, 1
Mantle, 1–5
Maris, 2
Musial, 1
Paige, 2
Quisenberry, 1–2
Rickey, 1–2
Rizzuto, 1
Robinson, J., 1
Rose, 1–3
Ruth, 1, 3, 6–7
Schmidt, 1
Stengel, 1, 3, 5, 9
Thomson, R., 1
Thronberry, 1
Van Slyke, 1
Veeck, 1
Waddell, 1
Weaver, 1–2
Wills, 1–2
basketball
Auerbach, 1–2
Baylor, 1
Chamberlain, W., 1
Jordan, 1
Kerr, J., 1
Smith, C., 1
bathrooms
Caen, 1
Lindbergh, 2
Maeterlinck, 1
Napoleon I, 4
Onassis, A., 1
Smith, F. E., 6
baths
Hoffmann, 1
battles
Beatty, 1
Caesar, 4
Forgy, 1
Jones, J. P., 1
Napoleon I, 10
Nelson, 3–4
Perry, 1
Pétain, 1
Stark, 1
Wellington, 7
Wheeler, 1
beards
Alexander III, 8
Keppel, 1
Landru, 2
Piccard, 1
bears
Nixon, 9
Beat Generation
Kerouac, 1
beauty
Charlotte, 1
Dumas fils, 4
Fuller, R. B., 1
Henry VIII, 2
Hyde, C., 1
Koppay, 1
Lenya, 1
Moore, G. A., 3
Onassis, J., 8
Simenon, 2
Talleyrand, 4
Thompson, 1
bedside manner
Temple, 1
begging
Altenberg, 1
Jerrold, 3
behavior
Onassis, J., 5
bequests
Cooper, W., 1
Graves, 1
Nelson, 5
bereavement. See also grief
Coward, 8
de Gaulle, 4
Galois, 1
Messier, 1
bets
Brodie, S., 1
Cohn, 2
Coolidge, 2, 13
Gates, 1
Goldwyn, 2
Heidegger, 1
Johnson, S., 15
Marquis, 2
Mozart, 4
Schopenhauer, 2
Bible, the
Byron, 4
Cohn, 2
Grant, U. S., 9
Menelik II, 2
Paine, 2
Racine, 1
Wilde, 1
Big Ben
Hall, 1
bigamy
Russell, J., 2
billiards
Louis XIV, 7
Spencer, 1
bills
Burns, 2
Edward VIII, 3
Houdini, 1
Kennedy, J. P., 4
Lister, 1
O’Neill, 3
Steinmetz, 2
biography
Balanchine, 1
Coolidge, 16
Goethe, 4
Johnson, S., 24
Lee, R. E., 6
Steinbeck, 5
Wilson, Harriette, 1
birds
Albert, Prince, 2
Augustus, 3
Berners, 5
Ker, 1
Victoria, 18
birth announcements
Dirichlet, 1
birth control
Darrow, 4
birthdays
Adams, F. P., 3
Lamb, Caroline, 1
Stevenson, R. L., 1
Twain, 14
birthplaces
Whistler, 3
blackmail
Adams, J. Q., 1
Brougham, 2
Hogarth, 1
Teng Shih, 1
Wilson, Harriette, 1
blacks. See also racism
Roosevelt, E., 1
Robinson, J., 1
blessings
Snead, 1
blindness
Keller, 1
North, 4
Shearing, 1
Thurber, 8–9
Blitz, the (World War II)
Elizabeth the Queen Mother, 1–2
Wells, 3
bluestockings
Vesey, 1
bluffing
Porson, 2
blunders
de Seversky, 1
Gesvres, 1
Gielgud, 1
Heggen, 1
Kipling, 1
Lang, 1
Lowell, R., 1
Metaxas, 1
Morgan, J. P., Sr., 5
Napoleon I, 5
O’Toole, 1
Previn, 2
Sitwell, G., 2
Spooner, 3
Trench, 2
boasting
Acheson, 3
Ali, 1–3
Archimedes, 2
Aumale, 2
Gerard, 1
Greeley, 2
Jackson, A., 3
Jarry, 3
Kennedy, J. F., 21
McCullers, 1
Mascagni, 1
Reed, 1
Taylor, J., 1
Twain, 18
Wilhelmina, 1
bombing/bombs
Einstein, 20
Waugh, 5
Wells, 3
books
Carroll, J., 1
Chesterton, 13
Cooper, Gary, 3
Dickens, 2–3, 5
Dryden, 2
Duveen, 1
Hardy, 1
Harris, 2
Hazlitt, 1
Howe, I., 1
Irving, W., 1
Jones, J., 1–3
Leonard, 1
Menelik II, 2
‘Omar, 1
Penick, 1
Routh, 2
Thoreau, 2
Truman, 10
Twain, 9
Wright, R., 1
borders
Jusserand, 3
Philip V., 1
boredom
Austin, W. R., 2
Beerbohm, 3
Coward, 9
Darwin, C. R., 2
Dumas père, 6
Ediso
n, T. A., 7
Edward VII, 7
Frederick William IV, 2
Johnson, S., 24
La Fontaine, 1
Queensberry, 1
Sandburg, 1
Sanders, 1
bores
Adams, F. P., 5
Andersen, 2
Bernard, 2
Bismarck, 6
Browning, R., 2
Burke, 2
Campbell, Mrs. P., 3
Canning, 2
Charles II, 3
Churchill, R. H. S., 1
Connolly, 1
Jerrold, 2
Selwyn, 4
Shaw, 7
Smith, F. E., 8
Smith, S., 6
Thomas, D., 1
Travers, 1
Twain, 12
Van Doren, 1
Whistler, 9
Wilde, 5
borrowing. See also debts; loans
Hazlitt, 1
Boston, Massachusetts
Emerson, 5
Gardner, I. S., 1–2
bowling
Nixon, 11
boxers
Ali, 4–5
Dempsey, 1–3
Fitzsimmons, 1
Graziano, 1
Louis, J., 1, 3–4
McCoy, 1–2
Mizner, W., 4
Sullivan, J. L., 1
Tyson, 1
brandy
Talleyrand, 10
Trollope, A., 4
breaking wind
Elizabeth I, 3
Rousseau, 1
breasts. See also décolletage
Aubernon, 2
Churchill, W., 22
Dumas fils, 2
Lenclos, 1
Louis XV, 4
Lucas, 2
Mature, 2
Parker, D., 8
brevity. See also taciturnity
Coolidge, 1, 15
Getty, 1
Henri IV, 6
Perry, 1
Swift, 4
bribery
Dryden, 3
Jackson, J., 1
bridges
Richelieu, 2
Sherman, R., 1
British, the. See also the English
Coote, 1
Gabin, 1
Broadway
Chesterton, 14
brothers
Charles II, 6
Holmes, J., 1
Jacobi, 1
Kissinger, 3
Buddhism
Asoka, 1
Buddha, 1
bullfights
Coward, 9
bullies
Swinburne, 1
bureaucracy
Nelson, 2
burials. See also funerals
Darius I, 2
Dumas père, 4
Jonson, 1, 2
Juang-zu, 1
Molière, 1
Nelson, 7
Rossetti, 2
busboys
Lang, 1
business mentality
Ford, H., 1
Hutton, E. F., 1
Newton, 9
business methods
Alexander, H., 1
Carnegie, 3–4
Ford, H., 1, 5
Goldwyn, 9
Lang, 2
Reagan, R., 8
Ross, 3–4
Thalberg, 1
cabbage
Taft, W. H., 4
calamity
Disraeli, 3
calculations
Einstein, 22
callousness
Evans, A., 1
Gauss, 2
Labouchere, 2
Louis XV, 3
McCormick, 1
Marie Antoinette, 1
Mayer, 2
Morel, 1
Nabokov, 1
Napoleon I, 10
Richelieu, 3
Rossini, 6
Routh, 1
Russell, B., 2
Vanderbilt, C., 3
Wilson, W., 2
Wylie, 1
calmness
Carver, 1
Casals, 2
Green, J. H., 1
Holmes, F. D., 3
Montgomery, B. L., 4
Sheridan, R. B., 13
Wellington, 7–8
camouflage
Picasso, 4
campaigns
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