Kneller, 2
Leighton, 1
Raphael, 1
Rossetti, 3
Ruskin, 2
Sargent, J. S., 2–3
Taylor, P., 1
Whistler, 16
criticism/critics, drama
Alexander, G. C., 1
Archer, 1
Bankhead, 3, 10
Barnes, 3
Behan, 3
Bernhardt, 9
Blumenthal, 1
Broun, 1
Chekhov, 2
Coward, 4
Gilbert, W. S., 8
Sandburg, 1
Shaw, 3
Taylor, L., 1
Victoria, 2
Wilde, 6
criticism/critics, literary
Arnold, 3
Bahr, 1
Bridger, 2
Browning, R., 1
Eliot, T. S., 3
Emerson, 4
Frost, 3
Gilbert, W. S., 2
Goldwyn, 5
Jerrold, 1
Johnson, S., 19
Maugham, 1
Pinter, 1
Pope, Alexander, 1
Porson, 4
Rivarol, 1
Tennyson, 3
Voltaire, 5, 7
Wilde, 10
Woollcott, 5
criticism/critics, movie
Berra, 8
Hepburn, 1
Mankiewicz, 1
Marx, G., 8
Mature, 1–2
Tarantino, 1
Thurber, 7
criticism/critics, music
Bülow, 4
Cherubini, 1, 3
Enesco, 1
Fitzgerald, E., 1
Klemperer, 3
Liberace, 1
Martinelli, 2
Meyerbeer, 1
Rachmaninoff, 1
Reger, 2
Rossini, 6
Saint-Saëns, 1
Satie, 2
Shaw, 2, 9
Stravinsky, 9, 13
Truman, 4
Wellington, 10
criticism, political
Acheson, 2
crops
Carlyle, 5
cross-dressing
Sharp, 1
crossword puzzles
Knox, R., 2
crowds
Barnum, 1
Berra, 2
cures
Charles II, 2
Galen, 1
Gershwin, G., 2
James, H., 6
Menelik II, 2
Pembroke, 1
Waterton, 1
Yeats, 2
curses
Ferdinand IV, 1
cursing. See swearing
customs officials
Slezak, 2
Wilde, 2
Wright, R., 1
cynicism
Allen, F., 1
dampness
George V, 8
dancers. See also ballet; choreographers
Arnould, 1
Astaire, 1, 3
Taylor, P., 1
dancing
Sandwich, 2
Travolta, 1
darkness
Wells, 3
Darwinism
Huxley, T. H., 1
deadlines
Parker, D., 1
deadlock
Jowett, 2
deafness
Bell, A. G., 2
Chateaubriand, 2
Churchill, W., 36
Edison, T. A., 8
Holmes, O. W., Sr., 4
McCoy, 2
Victoria, 12
death. See also deathbeds; dying; last words
Adams, J., 4
Aeschylus, 1
Anaxagoras, 1
Armstrong, L., 6
Auber, 3
Auden, 8
Barnum, 4
Benchley, 12
Bennett, A., 2
Brahe, 1
Caesar, 7
Chatterton, 1
Cohan, 4
Coolidge, 25
Disraeli, 12
Donne, 2
Duncan, 2
Elizabeth I, 6
Empedocles, 1
Evans, A., 1
Ferdinand IV, 1
Fontenelle, 4
Frohman, 1
Gilbert, W. S., 1
Goethe, 2
Green, J. H., 1
Greene, 3
Gwenn, 1
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 2
Holmes, O. W., Jr., 8
Houdini, 3
James, H., 7
Labouchere, 3
Li Bo, 1
Lincoln, A., 35
Louis XIV, 10
McCormick, 1
Mayer, 3
Montmorency, 1
Mozart, 8
Parker, D., 17
Philip III, 1
Rizzuto, 1
Russell, B., 4
Saroyan, 1
Schwarzenberg, 3
Segovia, 1
Selwyn, 1
Sobhuza II, 1
Stalin, 2
Stevens, 3
Strachey, 5
Sumner, 1
Tennyson, 10
Thales, 5
Thomas, D., 2–3
Twain, 13
Wilde, 18
Wilkes, 3
death announcements
Napoleon I, 14
deathbeds. See also death; dying; last words
Andersen, 4
Anthony, S. B., 3
Beethoven, 9
Butler, S., 5
Caroline of Ansbach, 2
Elizabeth I, 7
Greeley, 8
Victoria, 17
death warrants
Nero, 3
debates
Huxley, T. H., 1
Nixon, 5
debts. See also bills; creditors; loans
Addison, 3
Augustus, 5
Bean, 1
Bing, 6
Briand, 1
Fox, C. J., 1
Gleason, 1
Halbe, 1
Hayworth, 2
Herford, 1
James, J., 1
Liliencron, 2
Marx, C., 1
Orsay, 1
Rabelais, 1
Scott, 5
Sheridan, R. B., 5–8
Steele, 1
deception
Columbus, 1
Crockford, 1
Eliot, C. W., 1
Shi Huangdi, 1
decision making
Mauch, 1
Declaration of Independence
Adams, J., 4
Franklin, 2–3
Hancock, 1
Harrison, B. (“Signer”), 1
Hopkinson, F. (“Signer”), 1
Jefferson, T., 5
décolletage. See also breasts
Arnould, 3
Charles, Prince, 1
Depew, 2
Doherty, 1
John XXIII, 1
dedications
Armstrong, L., 2
Fitzgerald, F. S., 2
Mascagni, 2
Scarron, 1
defeat
Buller, 1
Francis II, 1
Goldwater, 2
Napoleon I, 12
Pitt, 3
Stevenson, A. E., 4
Taft, W. H., 5
Wellington, 11
defensiveness
O’Hara, J., 2
Stein, 4, 8
delicacy
Palmerston, 2
Ross, 8
delusion of grandeur
Churchill, W., 20
delusions
George IV, 1–2
demises
Sandwich, 3
democracy
Franklin, 12
Jefferson, T., 7, 9
Lycurgus, 1
demonstrations
Reagan, R., 2
dentures
Auden, 5–6
desertion
Frederick I
I, 5
Napoleon I, 11
detectives
Hammett, 1–2
determination. See also singlemindedness
Archimedes, 3
Arne, 1
Avery, 1
Flaherty, 1
Perot, 1
Pétain, 1
Robert I, 1
Truth, 1
diagnoses. See also cures; doctors
Abernethy, 3, 5
Bell, J., 2
Brahms, 8
Christie, 2
Fordyce, 1
Green, J. H., 1
Hartleben, 1
MacMahon, 1
Morse, 2
Pope, Alexander, 4
diamonds
Baker, J., 1
Taylor, E., 1
diaries
Goldwyn, 12
Kaufman, 12
dictators
Stalin, 1
dictionaries
Aymé, 1
Twain, 15
West, 3
dieting
Roosevelt, F. D., 4
digressions
Quayle, 2
dining habits
Crockett, 1
dinners
Balzac, 8
Barrie, 8
Bush, G., 3
Byron, 2
Clive, 1
Coolidge, 18
Eliot, T. S., 7
Ford, G. R., 4
Foster, 1
Hitchcock, 1
Necker, 1
Orsay, 2
Paderewski, 4
Petronius, 1
Pliny, 1
Sarasate, 1
Susann, 2
Travers, 1
Trench, 1
Trollope, A., 2
West, 4
diplomas
Webster, D., 4
diplomats/diplomacy
Adee, 1
Austin, W. R., 1–2
Bismarck, 4
Bryan, 1
Carol II, 1
Castro, 1–2
Churchill, W., 27
de Gaulle, 6
Elizabeth II, 7
Elizabeth the Queen Mother, 3
Elliot, 1
Franklin, 10
Franks, 1
George-Brown, 1
Harriman, 2
Keppel, 1
Labouchere, 1
Laird, 1
Lincoln, A., 16
Roosevelt, F. D., 7
Schwarzenberg, 1
Thorndike, 3
directions
James, H., 3
directors. See movie directors and producers
dirtiness
Webster, D., 4
Whistler, 13
disablement
Nelson, 1–2
disappearance
Gilbert, W. S., 9
disappointment
Cocteau, 2
Ford, G. R., 4
Irving, W., 1
Lincoln, A., 9
O’Neill, 4
disasters
Kennedy, E., 3
disciples
Diogenes, 5
Eddy, 1
Jefferson, T., 12
discipline
Onassis, J., 5
discoveries. See also inventions; scientists
Archimedes, 1
Fermi, 1
Fleming, A., 1
Galvani, 1
Kekulé von Stradonitz, 1
Newton, 1, 3, 6
Salk, 1
discretion
Baldwin, 2
Schwab, 1
Seward, 2
Shaftesbury, 1
diseases. See illness and specific illnesses
disguises
Alfred, 1
Edward VIII, 1
dislike
Lloyd, Weber, 1
dismissals
Greeley, 5
Picasso, 19
Robinson, E. A., 3
Talmadge, 1
Wharton, 2
disrespectfulness
Cyrus II, 1
diversions
Quayle, 1
divorce
Burr, 2
Eleanor of Aquitaine, 1
Luce, C. B., 1
Thorndike, 2
doctors. See also cures; diagnoses
Abernethy, 1, 3–6
Adenauer, 3
Alexander III, 5
Asquith, M., 4
Bell, J., 1–2
Benchley, 3
Berra, 9
Bismarck, 8
Brahms, 8
Farquhar, 1
Fordyce, 1
Frederick II, 11
Galen, 1
Garth, 1
George III, 7
Gibbon, 2
Grant, U. S., 13
Green, J. H., 1
Hartleben, 1
Hepburn, 1
Holmes, O. W., Sr., 1
Lister, 1
Mayo, 1
Millikan, 1
Morse, 2
Otto, 1
Reagan, R., 10
Schwartz, D., 2
Shaw, 24
Tennyson, 7
Virchow, 3
dogs
Campbell, Mrs. P., 4
Coward, 5
Green, H., 2
Nash, 1
Newton, 2
Nixon, 1
Shatner, 1
Wolfe, 2
domesticity
Ford, B., 1
Don Quixote
Cervantes Saavedra, 1
donations
Greeley, 7
Kennedy, J. F., 8
Morgan, J. P., Sr., 7
Reagan, R., 1
Untermeyer, 1
double standards
Nixon, 10
double-talk
Nixon, 3
dowries
Scarron, 2
dramatists. See playwrights
dreams
Archer, 1
Coleridge, 2
Constantine, 1
Howe, E., 1
Johnson, W., 1
Kekulé von Stradonitz, 1
Lincoln, A., 30, 35
Mantle, 4
Russell, B., 3
dress
Clemenceau, 7
Marx, G., 5
Poe, 1
drinking. See also drunkenness; liquor
Auden, 5
Bankhead, 2
Barrymore, J., 1
Benchley, 5
Fields, 3–4
Frederick Augustus I, 1
George IV, 1
George VI, 2
Grant, U. S., 13
Hemingway, 8
Johnson, S., 23
Lardner, 1–2
Lincoln, A., 10
Magruder, 1
Marquis, 1
Marshall, J., 1
Parker, D., 17
Porson, 3
Riley, 2
Schwartz, D., 1
Tennyson, 2
Whistler, 7
drivers
Alvanley, 1–2
Huxley, T. H., 2
driving
Davis, M., 1
Dayan, 1
Ramsey, 1
drowning
Korda, 3
Shelley, P. B., 2
drug addiction
Bankhead, 1
drunkenness. See also drinking; liquor
Addison, 2
Alexander, G. C., 1
Alma-Tadema, 1
Benchley, 4
Booth, J. B., 4
Carson, 3
Chamberlain, A., 2
Churchill, W., 30
Cooper, W., 1
Cionysius, II, 1
Fergusson, 1
Fields, 2
Fitzgerald, F. S., 3
Fordyce, 1
Fosdick, 1
George-Brown, 1
Pembroke, 1
Philip II, 1
Sullivan, A. S., 1
Thomas, D., 1
Verlaine, 1
Walpole, R., 1
Ward, 2
duels
Alvanley, 1
Clay, C. M., 1
Clemenceau, 3–4
Courteline, 1
Dumas père, 5
Fox, C. J., 2
Howarth, 1
Jackson, A., 1, 5
Mirabeau, 1
Napoleon I, 13
Putnam, 1
Sainte-Beuve, 1
Scholl, 1
Shelburne, 1
Virchow, 1
duty
Victoria, 1
William II, 2
dying. See also death; deathbeds; last words
Allen, E., 4
Allen, W., 2
Cannon, 1
Croll, 1
Franco, 1
Franklin, 14
Frederick II, 11
Frederick William I, 2–3
Gainsborough, 2
Galois, 1
Goethe, 1
Hammerstein, 3
Keats, 2
Palmerston, 4
Pope, Alexander, 4
Rabelais, 2
Rachmaninoff, 2
Toulouse-Lautrec, 1
earthquakes
Barrymore, J., 1
Caruso, 1
Hideyoshi, 1
Rockefeller, N. A., 1
eavesdropping
Baruch, 1
Beaumont, 1
eccentricity/eccentrics
Bankhead, 5
Banks, 1
Beckford, 1
Beecham, Sir T., 1
Booth, J. B., 3
Buckland, 1
Byron, 2
Dali, 1–3, 6
Dudley, 1
Eisenhower, 5
Feynman, 1
Horowitz, 2
Jarry, 1–4
Mytton, 1
Nerval, 1
Rossetti, 1
Schopenhauer, 1
Selwyn, 1
Waterton, 1
Wilde, 13
eclipses
Columbus, 3
Pericles, 1
Thales, 1
economists
Keynes, 2
Truman, 6
economizing
Tree, 6
economy
Kennedy, J. F., 12
editing/editors
Allen, F., 4
Churchill, W., 23
Dickens, 4
Eliot, T. S., 6
Franklin, 2
Glyn, 1
Goethe, 4
Hemingway, 3, 7
Johnson, S., 7
O’Neill, 1
Ross, 9, 11
education
Ali, 6
Berg, 1
Cohen, 1
Ford, H., 6
Franklin, 7
Fuller, M. W., 1
Henson, 1
Plato, 1
Rachel, 3
Samuelson, 1
Thomas, M. C., 1
efficiency
Alexander, H., 1
Ford, H., 5
egalitarianism
Emerson, 6
Pliny, 1
Tennyson, 1
ego. See conceit; self-importance
Eiffel Tower
Morris, W., 1
elections
Addams, 1
Abernethy, 2
Baylor, 1
Belloc, 1
Buckley, 1
Coppée, 1
Dewey, 1
Eastwood, 3
Fox, C. J., 5
Fuseli, 1
Gallup, 1
Goldwater, 2
Harrison, B. (President), 1
Hindenburg, 1
Kennedy, J. F., 3, 6–7, 9
Lincoln, A., 9
Long, 1
Reagan, N., 1
Sherman, W. H., 3
Stern, 1
Stevenson, A. E., 4–5
Taft, W. H., 5
Thomas, N., 1, 2–3
Van Buren, 1
elegies
Auden, 8
elephants
Barnum, 2
embargoes
Kennedy, J. F., 15
embarrassment
Channing, 1
Coolidge, 11
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