Elizabeth I, 3
Eugénie, 2
Onassis, A., 1
Shatner, 1
Steinbrenner, 2
Twain, 10
embezzlement
Johnson, S., 7
emblems
Edward I, 1
Edward III, 1
emergencies
Capa, 1
emigration
Rhodes, 2
emotions
Cagney, 3
Jones, J., 3
LaFayette, 3
employees
Clemenceau, 5
Eugénie, 2
Goldwyn, 14
Greeley, 5
Roosevelt, T., 1
employers
Augustus, 4
Cobb, 1
Gould, 1
employment. See also careers
Acheson, 1
Agassiz, 1
Arlen, 1
Ellenborough, 2
Faulkner, 1–2
Ford, H., 2
Mantle, 1
Mayer, 5
Philip, Prince, 2–3
Twain, 1
Tyler, 1
encouragement
Kerr, J., 1
endorsements
Kennedy, J. F., 6
Rogers, W., 3
enemies
Caroline of Brunswick, 4
Castracani, 1
Clay, H., 2
Frederick II, 7, 9
Goldwyn, 18
Hume, 5
Johnson, L. B., 4
Jones, J. P., 2
Khrushchev, 1
Lamb, Charles, 5
Lincoln, A., 32
Louis XIV, 3
Lowell, Amy, 1
Napoleon I, 8–9
Narváez, 1
Perry, 1
engineering
Archimedes, 2
Steinmetz, 2
English language
Nasser, 1
Richter, 2
English, the
Beecher, 3
Johnson, S., 2
MacNeil, 1
Palmerston, 3
Schopenhauer, 2
Voltaire, 4
entertainment
Petronius, 1
entrepreneurs
Bernhardt, 8
Thales, 2
Thoreau, 5
envy. See jealousy
epigrams
Wilde, 4
epiphanies
McCullers, 3
epitaphs
Benchley, 2
Boulanger, G., 1
Franklin, 15
Johnson, S., 22
Jonson, 2
Kaufman, 13
Keats, 3
Lamb, Charles, 1
Mencken, 1
Parker, D., 12
Parr, 1
Riley, 1
Sargent, J. S., 2
equality
Bernard, 4
Diogenes, 6
escapes
Cetewayo, 1
Gogarty, 2
Houdini, 2
esprit de corps
Palmerston, 2
esteem
Paderewski, 5
etiquette. See manners
eunuchs
Behan, 3
euphemism
Churchill, W., 22
Elizabeth II, 7
evangelism
Reagan, R., 1
Eve
John XXIII, 1
Smith, S., 6
evolution
Huxley, T. H., 1
exaggeration
Cagliostro, 1
Goldwyn, 19
Lincoln, A., 21
examinations
James, W., 2
Oppenheimer, 1
Phelps, 1
Samuelson, 1
Whistler, 2
Wilde, 1
exasperation
Stengel, 6
excitement
Reagan, R., 6
exclusion
Kennedy, R., 3
exclusivity
Hagan, 2
Smith, F. E., 6
excuses
Barham, 1
Barrymore, J., 6
Cooper, D., 2
Dahn, 1
Edward VII, 1
Gielgud, 3
La Fontaine, 1
Louis XV, 1
Sheridan, R. B., 2
execution. See also assassination; murder
Andre, 1
Bailly, 1
Blackwell, 1
Boleyn, 1
Bradford, 1
Brodie, W., 1
Bruno, 1
Byng, 1
Cavell, 1
Corday, 1
Cromwell, 4
Danton, 1
Favras, 1
Frederick II, 1
Frederick William I, 1
Harrison, B. (“Signer”), 1
Henry VIII, 1
John, A., 1
Latimer, 1
Lauzun, 1
Louis XVI, 4
Marie Antoinette, 3
Mary, Queen of Scots, 1
Milton, 2
More, T., 3
Muraviev, 1
Napoleon I, 5
Nicholas I, 5
Quin, 1
Raleigh, 7–8
Roland, 1
Schwarzenberg, 2
Selwyn, 2
Servetus, 1
Wellington, 8
exercise
Jusserand, 1–2
exhaustion
Stengel, 6
exhibitionism
Kaufman, 5
exile
Charles X, 2
expectations
Jordan, 1
Liszt, 3
Maris, 2
Monroe, 2
expediency
Chwolson, 1
expenditures
Fonda, J., 2
expense accounts
Fowler, 1
experience
Carter, 10
Johnson, S., 21
Wellington, 4
experiments
Avery, 1
Bacon, 5
Bell, J., 1
Edison, T. A., 3
Hevesy, 1
Ruskin, 1
experts
Rowland, 1
explanations
Feynman, 2
Thompson, 1
explorers
Charles V, 2
Columbus, 1–2
David, 1
Eric the Red, 1
Hillary, 1
Lloyd George, 5
Mallory, 1
Oates, 1
Park, 1
Peary, 1
Smith, S., 2
Stanley, 1
Thomson, J., 1
Wilde, 3
extortion
Themistocles, 1
extraterrestrial life
Knox, R., 1
Szilard, 1
extravagance
Beecham, Sir T., 1
Bennett, J. G., 3–4
eyeglasses
Davenant, 1
Ibsen, 2
Lenya, 1
eyesight
Dayan, 1
faces
Rose, 3
fact
Twain, 2
failure
Alexander G., 1
Churchill, R. F. E. S., 1
Crenshaw, 2
Davis, A., 1
Kissinger, 5
Monroe, 2
Thomas, N., 3–4
Wellington, 8
fairness
Carter, 2
Lombardi, 2
faith
McGraw, 1
fame
Alcott, L. M., 1
Allen, W., 1
Anders, 1
Auden, 4
Balzac, 4
Bankhead, 8
Berra, 18
Brahms, 6
Caine, 1
Copland, 1
Crawford, 1–2
Davy, 1
Disney, 1
Elizabeth the Queen Mother, 5
Faulkner, 4
Hayes, H., 3
Holmes, J., 1
Holmes, O. W., Sr., 5
John XXIII, 2
Kreisler, 3
Macauley, 5
Miller, 1
Napoleon I, 6
Oldfield, 1
Peck, 1
Robinson, E. A., 1
Schönberg, 1
Shaw, 24
Thomson, R., 1
familiarity
Churchill, W., 16
Eliot, T. S., 7
Reagan, R., 7
families
Allingham, 1
Edison, C., 1
Korda, 6
Lévis, 1
Quayle, 2
Thales, 4
famine
Lafayette, 1
fans. See also admirers
Berra, 17
Garvey, 1
fantasies
D’Annunzio, 2
Fraguier, 1
Thorndike, 1
farewells
Andersen, 4
Ross, 10
Thurlow, 4
Wylie, 1
fashion/fashion designers
Asquith, M., 3
Balmain, 1
Brummell, 7
Carson, 2
Chanel, 1–2
de Wolfe, 1
Dietrich, 2
George V, 8
Lee, G. R., 1
Napoleon I, 2
fastidiousness
Chopin, 2
fasting
Erasmus, 1
fatalism
Caesar, 4
fate
Bradford, 1
Singer, 2
fathers. See also children; parents
Carter, 7
Cyrus II, 1
Fiennes, 1
Frederick William I, 1
Giotto, 3
Kennedy, J. F., 21–22
Longworth, 1
Scott, 4
Truman, 4
faux pas
Austin, W. R., 1
Bush, B., 2
Coolidge, 11
Grant, U. S., 12
Jefferson, J., 1
Previn, 1–2
Reagan, R., 1, 13
Roosevelt, F. D., 6
favors
Halifax, C. M., 1
Lincoln, A., 7, 19, 29
Vespasian, 1
fear
Clay, C. M., 1
Clemenceau, 9
Foch, 2
Hitchcock, 6
Khrushchev, 4
Napoleon, E., 1
Wells, 3
fees. See also salaries
Bing, 7
Freud, 3
Holmes, O. W., Sr., 2
Kemble, F., 1
Kreisler, 2
Nilsson, 2–3
Paderewski, 4
Schnabel, 1
Spenser, 1
Steinmetz, 2
Stravinsky, 5
Ward, 1
Whistler, 4
feminism
Astor, N., 2
Bush, B., 3
Dole, 2
Mahaffy, 2
Montague, 1
Roosevelt, F. D., 3
Staël, 5
fiction/fictional characters
Balzac, 7
Carroll, 3
Cervantes Saavedra, 1
Dickens, 2
Grafton, 1
Ouida, 1
Trollop, A., 2–3
fights. See also duels
Ali, 5
McCoy, 1
Mizner, W., 4
film. See movie directors and producers; movies
fines
Lincoln, A., 5
fingerprints
Shaw, 22
fires
Benton, 1
Budé, 1
Cocteau, 1
Flaherty, 1
Madison, D., 1
Nero, 2
Newton, 2
Sheridan, R. B., 13
fireworks
Cushman, 1
Richardson, 1
First Ladies
Onassis, J., 4
fishing
Coolidge, 14
Twain, 18
Williams, Ted, 4
flattery
Alexander I, 2
Allen, F., 3
Armstrong, L., 3
Augustus, 3
Bacon, 3
Caligula, 2
Chase, S. P., 1
Clay, H., 4
Holmes, O. W., Sr., 4
Nixon, 11
Parr, 1–2
Tree, 2
flirtation
Alexander I, 2
Bismarck, 4
Byron, 3
de Gaulle, 8
Depew, 2
Fontenelle, 3
Johnson, S., 15
Sargent, J. S., 5
flops
Kaufman, 3–4
Lamb, Charles, 4
flowers
Anthony, S. B., 2
Carroll, 3
de la Mare, 1
Lawrence, D. H., 2
Meurisse, 1
Shaw, 13
flutes
Cherubini, 4
flying
Clemenceau, 9
Corrigan, 1
Lindbergh, 1–2
Wright Brothers, 1
food
Barrie, 8–9
Berra, 6
Brahms, 8
Buckland, 1–2
Burns, 2
Byron, 2
Carter, 2
Clinton, 2
Davis, A., 1
Disraeli, 9
Elizabeth II, 10
Fisher, 1
Garland, 1
Gibbons, 1
Grant, U. S., 4
Handel, 1
Hevesy, 1
Hitchcock, 1, 4
Johnson, N., 2
Lee, R. E., 4
Louis XVI, 1
Milnes, 1
Montecuccoli, 1
Moore, G. A., 2
Napoleon I, 13
Previn, 2
Rhodes, 2
Roosevelt, F. D., 5
Schumann-Heink, 1
Scott, 2
Smith, S., 4
Susann, 2
Thackeray, 1
Turner, 2
Welles, 3
football
Ford, G. R., 3
Gipp, 1
Lombardi, 1
Nagurski, 1–2
Namath, 1
Thorpe, 1
forgery
Picasso, 7
Mizner, W., 6
forgetfulness. See also absentmindedness
Beecham, Sir T., 6
Charles II, 3
Disraeli, 6
Drew, 1
Emerson, 9
Gilbert, J., 1
Matthews, 1–2
Monroe, 1
forgiveness
Cavell, 1
Frederick William I, 2
Luther, 1
Marie, 1
formality
Bismarck, 5
fortitude
Roosevelt, T., 5
France
Aumale, 3–4
Caen, 1
de Gaulle, 7
frauds
Ingyo, 1
Johnson, S., 19
Kahn, 1
Mizner, W., 6
Taylor, J., 1
free association
Berra, 10
free will
Singer, 2
freedom
Aymé, 1
Confucius, 1
Jefferson, T., 9
French, the
Foch, 5
Gabin, 1
Johnson, S., 2
Palmerston, 3
Voltaire, 4
Whistler, 18
French Resistance
Baker, J., 2
Boswell, 1
French Revolution
Mao Zedong, 2
friendship
Addison, 3
Bacall, 3
Boswell, 1
Byron, 1
Cagney, 2–3
Castracani, 1
Cather, 1
Cimon, 1
Cohan, 4
Coleridge, 6
de Gaulle, 5
Frith, 1
Goldwyn, 18
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 2
Heine, 3
Julia, 3
Korda, 1
Lafayette, 3
Levant, 1
Lincoln, A., 32
Lyndhurst, 1
North, 4
Reagan, R., 7
Ruskin, 2
Shaw, 18
Wittgenstein, 1
frivolity
Cunard, 1
frugality
Boult, 1
Socrates, 1
frustration
Lowell, Amy, 2
funerals. See also burials
Allen, E., 3
Andersen, 3
Asquith, M., 3
Auber, 3
Barrie, 2
Barrymore, M., 1
Chesterfield, 4
Cohn, 1
Degas, 4
Houdini, 2
Ikku, 1
Mayer, 6
Norbury, 2
Parker, D., 12
Rockefeller, N. A., 1
Thomas, D., 3
Voltaire, 9
furniture
Baldwin, 2
Benchley, 1
Mizner, W., 6
Tennyson, 8
gallantry
Acheson, 3
Barrymore, J., 9
Chesterton, 6
Edward III, 1
Franklin, 1
Jarry, 2
Maugham, 3
Raleigh, 1
Tracy, 2
Woollcott, 7
gambling
Bernard, 3
Campbell, T., 2
Crockford, 1
Fox, C. J., 4
Giamatti, 1
Korda, 2
games. See also card games and other specific games
Napoleon I, 1
Spencer, 1
gangsters
Capone, 1
gardening
Emerson, 1
Russell, B., 5
gardens
Coleridge, 4
genealogists
Smith, S., 5
General Motors
Wilson, C. E., 1
generosity
Alexander III, 3
Auden, 7
Brahms, 1
Corot, 1
Ford, H., 4
Gandhi, 4
Hume, 3
Ibn Saud, 2
Lafayette, 1
Nelson, 5
Noyes, 1
genius
Apelles, 1
Aquinas, 1
Bernstein, H., 1
Feynman, 1
Gershwin, G., 3
Mansart, 1
Mozart, 8
Paderewski, 1
Sarasate, 2
Staël, 1
Whistler, 8
Wilde, 2
gentlemen
Eden, A., 1
Germans
Adenauer, 1
Waugh, 5
ghost stories
Shelley, M., 1
ghosts
du Deffand, 2
gifts
Albermarle, 1
Armour, 1
Arnould, 3
Baker, J., 1
Cameron, J. M., 1
Carroll, L., 1
Clemenceau, 1
Corot, 1
Dali, 3
Elizabeth II, 3
Franks, 1
Gray, 1
Ibn Saud, 2
Johnson, W., 1
Lamb, Caroline, 1
Lawrence, T. E., 1
Mastroianni, 1
Meurisse, 1
Park, 1
Patti, 1
Perot, 1
Rachel, 4
Reisenauer, 1
Rockefeller, J. D., Sr., 1
Smith, S., 7
Toscanini, 3
Vanderbilt, A., 1
girdles
Zaharias, 1
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