Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes

by Clifton Fadiman

  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