glasses
Monet, 2
gluttony
Louis XVI, 1
Pinza, 1
Ruth, 2
Schumann-Heink, 1
Tetrazzini, 1
goads
Gosse, 4
God. See also clergy; religion
Balzac, 9
Bolt, 1
Haldane, J. B. S., 1
Howe, J. W., 1
Huston, 2
John III Sobieski, 1
Ker, 1
Kittredge, 1
Lincoln, A., 14
Owen, 1
Paine, 4
Sellers, 2
Smith, F. E., 7
Stravinsky, 9
Thoreau, 7
Waln, 1
Wayne, 1
Williams, Ted, 4
godfathers
Jullien, 1
Woollcott, 8
gods
Alexander III, 1
gold
Kirchhoff, 1
golf
Ali, 3
Archer, G., 1
Asche, 1
Bolt, 1
Bush, G., 4
Castlerosse, 1
Eisenhower, 5–6
Grant, U. S., 11
Hogan, 1
Marquis, 2
Mayer, 4
Nixon, 11
Penick, 1
Snead, 1
golfers
Farr, 1
Nicklaus, 1
Zoeller, 1
Gordian knot
Alexander III, 4
gossip
Coolidge, 20
Lowell, R., 1
gourmets
Brillat-Savarin, 1
governesses
Brontë, 1
government
Carter, 9
Cromwell, 2
Franklin, 4
Giolitti, 1
Quesnay, 1
Talleyrand, 12
graduations
Dyson, 1
graft. See also corruption
Curley, 1
Nixon, 1
grammar
Austin, A., 1
Bouhours, 1
Churchill, W., 24
Dean, 2
Greeley, 4
Malherbe, 1
Tooke, 1
Woollcott, 9
Grand Canyon
Foch, 4
grandeur
Bacon, 3
Balsan, 1
Morgan, J. P., Sr., 3
gratitude
Augustus, 2
Berra, 4
Emerson, 5
Gray, 1
Maugham, 4
graves. See burial
greed
Ade, 1
Albemarle, 1
Armour, 1
Darius I, 2
Freud, 3
Patti, 1
Rachel, 4
Raleigh, 6
Richard I, 2
Schwartz, M., 1
Trollope, A., 2
Vespasian, 1
Victor Amadeus II, 1
Greenland
Eric the Red, 1
greetings
Hemingway, 9
Lillie, 3
Marx, G., 13
Stanley, 1
Wodehouse, 1
grief. See also bereavement
Cohan, 4
Rossetti, 2
Thales, 4
growing up
Allen, F., 1
grudges
Barton, 1
guarantees
Wilson, W., 1
guests
Andersen, 2
Arnold, 1
Balzac, 8
Bembo, 1
Bernard, 5
Bismarck, 6
Brodie, B. C., 1
Brummell, 4
Byron, 2
Chamberlain, A., 2
Chopin, 1
Churchill, W., 31
Disraeli, 9
Edison, T. A., 7
Einstein, 7
Fleming, I., 1
Foster, 1
Francis Joseph, 1
Gleason, 1
Hitchcock, 1, 3
Hook, 3
Huxley, A., 2
Jackson, T. J., 6
Kreisler, 2
Levant, 4
Maeterlinck, 1
Maugham, 2
Previn, 2
Rogers, W., 1
Sheridan, R. B., 1
Strachey, 1
Susann, 2
Trench, 2
Waugh, 4
Woollcott, 10
gullibility
Ford, B., 3
gunfire
Reagan, R., 15
gymnasts
Strug, 1
habit
Hilbert, 1
hairdos
Onassis, J., 3
Reagan, N., 5
halitosis
Gelon, 1
Woollcott, 5
Halley’s Comet
Twain, 23
handicaps
Bernhardt, 8
Hoy, 1
Roosevelt, F. D., 11
Thurber, 8
hands
Rachmaninoff, 2
handwriting
Courteline, 1
Greeley, 5–6
Macready, 1
hanging
Fleetwood, 1
happiness
Barrymore, E., 3
Onassis, J., 7
Russell, B., 5
harems
North, 1
Harvard
Eliot, C. W., 1–2
Wayne, 2
hats
Brodie, B. C., 1
Lee, G. R., 1
Victoria, 18
Wells, 1
Wilde, 16
headmasters
Taft, H. D., 1
health
Adams, J. Q., 2
Lawrence, D. H., 2
Sigismund, 1
Tennyson, 10
heart attacks
Montgomery, B. L., 4
heaven
Andrew, 1
Cocteau, 5
Edward VII, 5
Rose, 4
Sedgwick, C., 1
hecklers
Addison, 1
Alexander, George, 1
Astor, N., 3
Beecher, 1
Buddha, 2
Clay, H., 6
Clinton, 1
Khrushchev, 4
Lamb, Charles, 7
Lloyd George, 1
Macaulay, 4
Shaw, 3
Smith, A. E., 2
Stein, 2
Stravinsky, 1
Wilson, Harold, 1
hedonism
Leo X, 1
Zoeller, 1
height
Barrie, 2
Benchley, 10
Busby, 2
Hofmann, 1
Jarry, 3
Lincoln, A., 11, 13
Lloyd George, 4
Napoleon I, 7
Rodgers, 1
Weaver, 2
hell
Andrew, 1
Cocteau, 5
Greeley, 7
Labouchere, 3
Lloyd George, 1
Luther, 2
Rose, 4
hemorrhoids
Tennyson, 7
heredity
Whistler, 8
heresy
Servetus, 1
heroes/heroism
Alençon, 1
Chaplin, 5
Churchill, W., 15
Clark, G. R., 1
Oates, 1
hiccups
Mytton, 1
hints
Haydn, 2
Rossini, 8
hippopotamus
Darwin, C. R., 3
history
Churchill, W., 11
Michelet, 1
Reagan, R., 5
Truman, 3
hoaxes
Hill, J., 1
&nbs
p; Hook, 2
hobbies
George V, 1
holidays
Charles, Prince, 2
Hollywood
Algren, 1
Bacall, 3
Carter, 10
Coote, 1
Garbo, 4
Reagan, R., 10
home runs
Musial, 1
Ruth, 4, 8
homes. See also housing
Berra, 12
hometowns
Coolidge, 21
Cooper, Gary, 1
Sedgwick, C. M., 1
homosexuality
Auden, 1
Goldwyn, 4
Strachey, 2
Wilde, 14
Williams, Tennessee, 2
honesty
Churchill, W., 18
Frederick II, 2
Lenclos, 3
honeymoons
Parker, D., 1
honor
Aquinas, 1
Liliencron, 2
Napoleon I, 12
honors
Avempace, 1
Bialik, 1
Cato, 3
Clemenceau, 2
Disraeli, 9
James, H., 8
Mably, 3
Nelson, 3
hope
Alexander III, 3
Johnson, S., 22
horse racing
Campbell, T., 2
Crockford, 1
horses
Alexander III, 2
Anne, Princess, 3
Bernard, 6
Charles II, 1
Fleetwood, 1
Fonda, J., 2
Hobson, T., 1
Monroe, 6
Nagurski, 2
Nicholson, 1
horticulture
Parker, D., 6
hospitality
Khrushchev, 1
Napoleon I, 4
Spooner, 1
Stalin, 3
hospitals
Millay, 1
Mizner, W., 1
Parker, D., 10
hosts and hostesses
Aubernon, 1–2
Beckford, 1
Berners, 4
Bowen, E., 1
Brahms, 5
Brummell, 4
Buckland, 2
Chamberlain, A., 2
Chopin, 1
Chigi, 1
Churchill, W., 31
Edward VII, 2, 6
Emerson, 2
Gardner, I. S., 3
Hilbert, 2
Hook, 3
Levant, 4
McCormick, 1
Mallarmé, 1
Morgan, J. P., Sr., 5
Napoleon I, 4
Necker, 1
Rhodes, 1
Sandwich, 1
Sarasate, 1
Swift, 2
Trench, 2
Wodehouse, 1
hotels
Coward, 10
Gleason, 1
Hope, 1
Jefferson, T., 6
Johnson, S., 14
Lang, 2
Marx, G., 5
Mizner, W., 3
Roosevelt, T., 2
Telford, 1
hot tubs
Berra, 13
housing
Franklin, 13
Mizner, A., 1
Victoria, 4
housework
Thatcher, 1
huffiness
O’Hara, J., 4
humility
Aidan, 1
Callas, 2
Canute, 1
Cassatt, 1
Churchill, W., 15
Edward VII, 5
Einstein, 14
Gandhi, 1, 3
Hokusai, 1
James, H., 8
Kennedy, J. F., 2
Mably, 1
Newton, 10
Paderewski, 3
Philip II, 3
Roosevelt, T., 3
humor. See also comedy
Campbell, Mrs. P., 7
Reagan, R., 20
Woollcott, 3
humorists. See also comedians
Ade, 1
Hungarians
Szilard, 1
hunger
Fisher, 1
Hitchcock, 1
Susann, 2
hunting
Asquith, M., 2
Baruch, 2
Roosevelt, T., 6
Tennyson, 6
husbands. See also marriage, wives
Gabor, 2–3
Hemingway, 2
Lytton, 1
Parker, D., 14
Victoria, 17
hypochondria
Farquhar, 1
Kaufman, 14
hypocrisy
Beria, 1
Frederick II, 10
Nixon, 5
Parker, D., 4
Talleyrand, 8
hypocrites
Reed, 1
Twain, 5
idealists
Giamatti, 1
identification. See also mistaken identity; recognition
Abernethy, 5
Anders, 1
Berra, 9
Burton, R., 2
Eisenhower, 5
Elizabeth II, 3
Francis Joseph, 2
Grant, U. S., 7
Jackson, T. J., 4
Jefferson, J., 1
Newton, 4
Rubinstein, Artur, 2
Ruth, 4
Scheffel, 1
Spooner, 4
Twain, 6
Watson, 1
identity
Sellers, 3
idiots
Finley, 1
idleness
Sebastiano del Piombo, 7
Thurlow, 1
idolatry
Allen, F., 3
Bernhardt, 10
McCullers, 2
ignorance
Copland, 1
Cushman, 1
Fitzgerald, F. S., 1
Fuller, M. W., 1
Gesvres, 1
Goldwyn, 3, 8, 12
Johnson, S., 5
Pringle, 1
Wills, 1
illegitimacy. See also mothers; paternity
Gwyn, 2
illiteracy
Graziano, 1
Ibsen, 2
illness. See also specific illnesses
Alexander III, 5
Bing, 3, 9
Brummell, 5
Cobb, 1
Cooper, Gladys, 1
Curran, 3
Davis, A., 1
de la Mare, 1
Farr, 1
Gilbert, W. S., 9
Gunther, 1
James, H., 6
Keats, 2
Lawrence, D. H., 2
Lincoln, A., 26
MacMahon, 1
Paine, 3
Pope, Alexander, 4
Sigismund, 1
Twain, 22
Woollcott, 9
illustrations
Ross, 9
Twain, 9
images
Toscanini, 9
imagination
Adams, J., 1
Balzac, 2
Beecham, Sir T., 5
Buckland, 2
Casals, 4
Clay, H., 3
Harris, 3
Hitchcock, 5
Hofmann, 2
Kerr, J., 1
Melville, 1
Picasso, 15–16
imitation
Armstrong, L., 3
Chaplin, 2, 4
Dietrich, 1
Lee, G. R., 1
Wilde, 11
immigrants
Roosevelt, F. D., 12
Schnabel, 2
Stravinsky, 3
immortality
Allen, W., 2
Meyerbeer, 1
Michelangelo, 2
impartiality
Edward III, 2
imperialism
Bismarck, 7
Frederick II, 10
imposters
Connelly, 2
impotence
Aumale, 5
Korda, 4
impropriety
Schwab, 1
improvisation
Jolson, 1
Kaufman, 7–8
Lincoln, A., 36
Morris, C., 1
Rossini, 4
Sandburg, 2
Unzelmann, 1
impudence
Stravinsky, 4
inaugurations
Roosevelt, F. D., 6
Taft, W. H., 1
incompetence
Nicholas I, 1
Philip III, 1
Wills, 2
indecency
Niven, 1
independence
Onassis, J., 7
Indians, American
Churchill, W., 17
Cope, 1
Sheridan, P. H., 1
Tecumseh, 1
Indians, Asian
Churchill, W., 17
Eliot, J., 1
indiscretion
Mathilde, 1
indolence
Reagan, R., 19
infallibility
Dulles, 1
Goldwyn, 6
infatuation
Shaw, 19
infidelity. See also love affairs; lovers; mistresses; sex
Alexander VI, 1
Alexandra, 1
Anderson, 1
Augustus, 6
Barbirolli, 1
Bernard, 2
Boleyn, 1
Caesar, 3
Caroline, Duchesse, 1
Caroline of Brunswick, 2
Collins, J., 1
Conti, 1
Feydeau, 3
Freud, 1
Gabor, 2
Giampetro, 1
Howard, C., 1
Julia, 1
Kaufman, 12
Parker, D., 4
Richelieu, 1
Schwartz, 1
Tooke, 2
Webster, N., 1
infirmity. See also illness
Adams, J. Q., 2
Chesterfield, 4
ingenuity
Alexander III, 4
Alexander, S., 1
Anaximenes, 1
Archimedes, 3
Arno, 1
Avempace, 1
Baeyer, 1
Bankhead, 7
Barnum, 1
Bing, 3
Botticelli, 1
Buffalmacco, 1
Choate, 2
Cole, 1
Columbus, 2–3
Connelly, 2
Cummings, 1
Edward III, 1
Gibbons, 1
Ibrahim, 1
Menelik II, 1
Mozart, 4
Perot, 1
Rabelais, 1
Victoria, 9
Voltaire, 4
ingratitude
Clark, G. R., 1
Schwarzenberg, 1
Shaw, 18
inheritances. See also wills
Elizabeth I, 1
Lear, 2
Rhodes, 4
Richelieu, 3
injuries
Bridger, 1
Brummell, 1
Brunet, 1
Patton, 1
Raglan, 1
Reagan, R., 9
in-laws
Churchill, W., 21
Foch, 4
Russell, J., 2
innocence
Lucas, 2
O’Toole, 1
inns. See hotels
inquisitiveness
Talleyrand, 1
insanity
Chaloner, 1
George III, 5
Nerval, 2
Wolf, 1
inscriptions. See also autographs
Allais, 1
Bowles, W. L., 1
Brahms, 7
Buckley, 2
Byron, 4
Cromwell, 5
Darius I, 2
Ford, H., 4
Nash, 1
Plato, 2
insects
Haldane, J. B. S., 1
Jefferson, T., 5
insincerity
Augustine, 1
Barrymore, J., 2
Christina, 1
North, 4
inspiration
Austin, A., 1
Baum, 2
Beethoven, 3
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