Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes

by Clifton Fadiman

  Carter, 2, 10

  Dole, 6

  Travolta, 2

  candidates. See also elections; politicians; presidents

  Carson, 4

  Carter, 10

  Ford, G. R., 3

  Reagan, R., 21

  Roosevelt, F. D., 12

  cannibalism

  Johnson, L. B., 10

  Packer, 1

  cards/card games

  Adams, F. P., 1

  Campbell, D., 1

  Cole, 1

  Eliot, T. S., 5

  Elliston, 1

  Foote, 6

  Gershwin, I., 1

  Hull, C., 1

  Kaufman, 9

  Locke, 1

  Louis XV, 3

  Mizner, W., 2

  Parr, 3

  careers. See also employment

  Algren, 1

  Beaton, 1

  Garbo, 4

  Hughes, 1

  Kennedy, J. F., 4

  Ladd, 1

  Navratilova, 1

  Pope, Alexander, 3

  Root, 1

  Smith, S., 8

  caricatures

  Wellington, 13

  cartoonists

  Nast, 1

  Ross, 11

  casting

  Fiennes, 1

  Reagan, R., 3

  Reynolds, B., 1

  castration

  Grassini, 1

  Catholics

  Adler, 1

  Andrew, 1

  cats

  Evans, E., 1

  Grafton, 1

  Twain, 7

  caution

  Clemenceau, 9

  celebrations

  Cunard, 1

  celebrities

  Claire, 1

  DiMaggio, 1

  Telford, 1

  Twain, 10

  celebrity. See fame

  celibacy

  Stanton, E. C., 1

  censorship

  Heap, 1

  Pompadour, 1

  Stubbs, 1

  challenges

  Cooper, J. F., 1

  Cleveland, F. F., 1

  Houdini, 3

  Mallory, 1

  Mitchell, 1

  Roosevelt, F. D., 11

  champagne

  Wilde, 18

  championships

  Ali, 5

  Louis, J., 1

  Smith, C., 1

  change

  Lloyd George, 3

  charisma

  Bush, G., 1

  charity

  Abernethy, 4

  Aidan, 1

  Auden, 7

  Bankhead, 6

  Beecham, T., 1

  Carlyle, 4

  Carnegie, 1, 5

  Ford, H., 4

  La Guardia, 1

  O’Hara, J., 1

  charlatans. See frauds charm

  Disraeli, 10

  Kennedy, J. F., 19

  chastity

  Augustine, 1

  cheating

  Foote, 6

  Gates, 1

  McCoy, 2

  Sutton, 2–3

  chefs. See cooks/chefs

  chemistry

  Lasorda, 1

  chess

  Begin, 1

  Borromeo, 1

  chickens

  Coolidge, 9

  child labor

  Owen, 1

  child prodigies

  Auber, 1

  Einstein, 1

  Gauss, 1

  Huxley, A., 1

  James I, 3

  Johnson, S., 1

  Mozart, 1, 3

  Pascal, 1

  child rearing

  Coleridge, 4

  Onassis, J., 5

  Picabia, 1

  children. See also child prodigies; parents

  Allingham, 1

  Andersen, 3

  Aubernon, 3

  Bacall, 3

  Barrie, 3, 5, 9

  Basie, 1

  Betty, 1

  Caesar, 9

  Carter, 8

  Clemenceau, 6

  Cornelia, 1

  Coward, 5, 8

  Cyrus II, 1

  de Gaulle, 4

  Diana, 1

  Diogenes, 5

  Duse, 2

  Einstein, 1, 18–19

  Eisenhower, 3

  Elizabeth II, 6

  Engels, 1

  Feydeau, 1

  Field, M., 1

  Fitzgerald, E., 1

  George V, 4

  Gibbon, 1

  Giotto, 3

  Goethe, 2

  Grable, 1

  Graves, 1

  Gunther, 1

  Johnson, S., 6

  Julia, 1

  Kennedy, J. F., 21–22

  Lamb, Charles, 1

  Laughton, 2

  Lincoln, A., 8

  Marx, G., 10

  Olivier, 1

  Onassis, J., 5

  Oscar II, 1

  Picasso, 20

  Raleigh, 5

  Schönberg, 1

  Schumann-Heink, 2

  Scott, 4

  Solomon, 1

  Stevenson, A. E., 7

  Themistocles, 2

  Truman, 4

  Wellington, 13, 16

  Whistler, 13

  china

  Truman, 9

  chivalry. See gallantry

  choreographers. See also ballet; dancers

  Diaghilev, 1–3

  Christian Science

  Eddy, 1

  Christianity. See religion

  churches

  Edison, T. A., 5

  Voltaire, 12

  CIA

  Castro, 2

  cigars

  Freud, 2

  Haeseler, 1

  Kennedy, J. F., 15

  Knopf, 1

  Laird, 1

  Marshall, T. R., 1

  Marx, G., 10

  Stengel, 1

  Twain, 16

  circuses

  Barnum, 2

  Stravinsky, 10

  citizenship

  Einstein, 8

  civil disobedience

  Thoreau, 4

  civilization

  Gandhi, 5

  Garrod, 1

  Park, 1

  clarifications

  Chandler, 1

  clarity

  Stengel, 7

  classics, study of

  Gaisford, 1

  cleanliness

  Edison, T. A., 6

  Elliston, 1

  Fleming, A., 1

  clergy

  Ambrose, 1

  Andrew, 1

  Augustine, 1

  Bernhardt, 6

  Bossuet, 2

  Chesterfield, 1

  George III, 1, 7

  George-Brown, 1

  Grant, U. S., 13

  Greeley, 3

  Gregory I, 1

  Henry II, 1

  Hill, R., 2

  Holmes, O. W., Sr., 1

  Hume, 2

  James I, 2

  John XXIII, 5–6

  Johnson, S., 18

  Luther, 4

  Marx, G., 2

  Morgan, J. P., Sr., 3

  Mugnier, 2

  Paley, 1

  Phillips, 2

  Poggio Bracciolini, 1

  Sandwich, 1

  Schleiermacher, 1

  Smith, S., 3, 7

  Swift, 3

  Temple, 1

  Thurlow, 2–3

  Trench, 1

  Voltaire, 14

  Wesley, 2

  clothing. See also costumes; fashion

  Acheson, 3

  Alexander, S., 1

  Astor, N., 4

  Balzac, 9

  Beecham, Sir T., 1

  Caesar, 1

  Campbell, Mrs. P., 6

  Carson, 2

  Chanel, 2

  Coward, 2

  Darrow, 1

  Depew, 2

  Eden, A., 1

  Elizabeth II, 12

  Ford, J., 2

  Fuller
, M., 2

  George V, 8

  Grote, 1

  Guines, 1

  Hepburn, 3

  Johnson, L. B., 8

  Julia, 2

  Maris, 1

  Montagu, 1

  Poe, 1

  Rhodes, 1

  Ross, 7

  Smyth, 1

  Taft, L., 1

  Tennyson, 1, 4–5

  Twain, 17

  Williams, Ted, 2

  clubs

  Adams, F. P., 1

  Foote, 5

  Hagan, 2

  Marx, G., 3–4

  Mature, 1

  clumsiness

  Jolley, 1

  Macaulay, 3

  Whistler, 15

  coaches

  Kerr, 1

  Smith, C., 1

  coal miners

  Owen, 1

  cobblers

  Apelles, 1

  codes, secret

  Thomson, G., 1

  coincidence

  Adams, J., 4

  Churchill, W., 13

  Coleridge, 5

  Divine, 1

  Ferdinand IV, 1

  Hyde, W., 1

  Jefferson, T., 13

  Lincoln, R. T., 1

  Steinbeck, 2

  Thurber, 4

  Twain, 23

  Varah, 1

  coins

  Cromwell, 5

  collaboration

  Gilbert, W. S., 3

  Lloyd Weber, 1

  Porson, 5

  Rodgers, 1

  colonials

  Elizabeth the Queen Mother, 3

  color blindness

  Dalton, 1

  colors

  Turner, 2–3, 5

  comedians. See also humorists

  Abernethy, 5

  Burns, 1

  Chaplin, 1

  Rogers, W., 1

  Ustinov, 2

  comedy. See also humor

  Chaplin, 3

  Gwenn, 1

  comets

  Mazarin, 2

  Twain, 23

  comfort

  Hepburn, 2

  Holmes, O. W., Jr., 3

  Maria Theresa, 1

  Suvorov, 1

  comic books

  Berra, 11

  commentary

  Barrows, 1

  communication

  Ruskin, 3

  communism

  Noyes, 1

  Reagan, R., 12

  Steffens, 1

  Wright, R., 1

  Communists

  Clemenceau, 6

  Reagan, R., 22

  compassion

  Abernethy, 4

  Aidan, 1

  Bader, 1

  Mencken, 1

  Napoleon I, 9

  Philip, J. W., 1

  compensation

  Gluck, 1

  Nelson, 2

  competency

  Reagan, R., 8

  competition/competitiveness

  Carter, 4

  Ford, G. R., 3

  Mozart, 8

  Travolta, 2

  complaints

  Heifetz, 3

  Susann, 3

  compliments

  Abernethy, 6

  Brahms, 7

  Braithwaite, 2

  Bull, 1

  Chase, S. P., 1

  Choate, 1

  Churchill, W., 13

  Fiske, 1

  Franklin, 1, 11

  Gielgud, 1

  Hofmann, 1

  Holmes, J., 2

  Jefferson, T., 3

  Kennedy, J. F., 20

  Lincoln, A., 20

  O’Hara, J., 2

  Rossini, 2–3

  Siddons, 2

  Thurber, 6

  Victoria, 4

  Wilde, 16

  Woollcott, 7

  composers. See also conductors; musicians; singers

  Auber, 1

  Antheil, 1

  Beethoven, 1, 3–4

  Borodin, 1

  Brahms, 10

  Britten, 1–2

  Bülow, 3

  Cherubini, 1, 3

  Duke, 1

  Gershwin, G., 4

  Gilbert, W. S., 1, 4–5

  Hammerstein, 2

  Handel, 2, 4

  Haydn, 1, 4

  Jullien, 2

  Kelly, M., 1

  Liszt, 1

  Lloyd Weber, 1

  Mahler, 1

  Meyerbeer, 1–3

  Mozart, 3, 5, 8

  Offenbach, 1

  Rodgers, 2

  Rossini, 1–2, 4, 6

  Ruggles, 1

  Saint-Saëns, 1

  Satie, 1

  Strauss, 1

  Stravinsky, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10

  Verdi, 1–2

  Walton, 1

  composure

  Reagan, R., 15

  compromise

  Alvanley, 2

  Stein, 4

  comradeship

  Washington, 4

  conceit. See also selfimportance

  Adams, F. P., 3

  Alcibiades, 1

  Antisthenes, 1

  Asquith, M., 3

  Astor, N., 4

  Atlas, 1

  Bakst, 1

  Callas, 2

  Carnegie, 2

  Charles II, 1

  Chateaubriand, 2

  Churchill, W., 5

  Clurman, 1

  Coolidge, 24

  Disraeli, 8

  Dreiser, 1

  Dulles, 1

  Gershwin, G., 1, 5

  Guines, 1

  Isabey, 1

  James, H., 1

  Jarry, 1

  Johnson, S., 16, 25

  Joyce, James, 2

  Kaufman, 11

  Kneller, 1

  Lunt, 1

  Mazarin, 1

  Mugnier, 1

  O’Toole, 2

  Pachmann, 1

  Pompadour, 2

  Sheridan, R. B., 14

  Spurgeon, 2

  Stein, 6

  Tree, 7

  Whistler, 8–12, 14–15

  Wilde, 11–12

  Wilding, 1

  concentration

  Berra, 1

  concerts. See also audiences; composers; conductors; musicians; rehearsals

  Albert, Prince, 1

  Antheil, 1

  Brendel, 1

  Grant, U. S., 10

  Levant, 2

  Pachmann, 1–3

  Parker, H. T., 1

  Rodzinski, 1

  Rubinstein, Artur, 2

  Shaw, 9

  Stokowski, 1

  Stravinsky, 2

  Wellington, 9

  Wieniawski, 1

  condescension

  Alcibiades, 1

  Tecumseh, 1

  conductors. See also composers; musicians; rehearsals; singers

  Beecham, Sir T., 2, 7–11, 12

  Boult, 1

  Busch, 1

  Casals, 1

  Furtwängler, 1

  Hess, 1

  Hindemith, 1

  Klemperer, 1–2

  Koussevitsky, 2

  Lully, 1

  Massenet, 1

  Mehta, 1

  Previn, 1

  Richter, 1

  Rodzinski, 1

  Saint-Saëns, 1

  Stokowski, 2

  Toscanini, 1–2, 4–9

  Walter, 1

  Coney Island

  Gorki, 1

  confessions

  Peter I, 1

  Teresa, 1

  confidence

  Einstein, 2

  Fitzsimmons, 1

  Goldwyn, 6

  Jordan, 1

  Louis, J., 4

  Turner, 6

  confusion

  Fiennes, 1

  congratulations

  Alma-Tadema, 1

  Congress

  Cleveland, G., 1

  conquest

  Napier, 1

  Patton, 2

  conscience

  Thoreau, 7

  cons
cientious objectors

  Strachey, 2

  conservative

  Polk, 1

  consolation

  Barbirolli, 1

  de Gaulle, 4

  conspiracy

  Alexander I, 1

  Fawkes, 1

  constituents

  Clay, H., 7

  constraints

  Ferguson, 1

  contentment

  Adams, J. Q., 3

  contests

  Alexander I, 3

  Dryden, 3

  Greene, 1

  contracts

  Lucas, 1

  contradictions

  Kennedy, R., 1

  conventions, political

  Onassis, J., 2

  conversation

  Abernethy, 6

  Aubernon, 1

  Berners, 4

  Browning, R., 2

  Francis Joseph, 1

  Herschel, 1

  Holmes, O. W., Jr., 8

  Jarry, 1

  Lewis, C. S., 1

  Locke, 1

  Macaulay, 2

  Maintenon, 2

  Marx, H., 1

  Necker, 1

  Roosevelt, F. D., 7

  Schopenhauer, 2

  Smith, F. E., 1

  Whistler, 14

  Wittgenstein, 1

  Wodehouse, 2

  cooking

  Alfred, 1

  du Barry, 1

  Hitchcock, 4

  cooks/chefs

  Carême, 1

  Hayes, H., 2

  Hayworth, 1

  Landor, 1

  Moore, G. A., 2

  Riley, 1

  Vatel, 1

  copyright

  Burke, 1

  corpses

  Rogers, S., 3

  corruption. See also graft

  Clive, 2

  Nast, 1

  corsets

  Thompson, 1

  cosmetics

  Rigaud, 1

  costumes

  Astaire, 3

  Mature, 3

  coughing

  Barrymore, J., 8

  Brendel, 1

  Curran, 3

  courage

  Andre, 1

  Arria, 1

  Bruno, 1

  Byng, 1

  Christian X, 1

  Churchill, W., 15

  Farr, 1

  Foch, 2

  Frederick II, 6

  Galois, 1

  Gunther, 1

  Jackson, T. J., 3

  Jones, J. P., 1

  Kennedy, J. F., 2

  MacArthur, D., 1

  More, T., 3

  Pyle, 1

  Roland, 1

  Roosevelt, F. D., 11

  courtesy. See also manners

  Harriman, 2

  Hay, 1

  Jefferson, T., 11

  Twain, 12

  Whistler, 18

  courtship

  Burton, Sir R., 1

  Gibbon, 2

  Grant, U. S., 1

  Jefferson, T., 2

  Lenya, 1

  Lewis, S., 1–2

  Onassis, J., 1

  Raleigh, 2

  Victoria, 5

  Webster, D., 6

  cowardice

  Clemenceau, 4

  Foch, 2

  Jackson, T. J., 3

  cowboys

  Roosevelt, T., 1

  Creation, the

  Alfonso X, 1

  Beecher, 4

  Knox, R., 1

  Luther, 3

  creativity, nature of

  Balzac, 6, 9

  Dali, 5

  Ford, H., 2

  creditors

  Liliencron, 2

  Lincoln, A., 4

  Woollcott, 2

  credits

  Jullien, 2

  Tracy, 2

  crime. See also specific crimes

  Hylan, 1

  Nixon, 10

  Solon, 2

  criminals. See also murderers; thieves

  Chekhov, 1

  Condorcet, 1

  Jackson, A., 2

  Kemble, J. P., 2

  Wild, 1

  criticism/critics, art

  Apelles, 2

  Beckford, 2

  Davy, 3

  Degas, 3

  Fuseli, 2