Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes

by Clifton Fadiman

  Marie Antoinette, 3

  Milne, 1

  Parker, D., 15

  Schweitzer, 1

  Stanley, 1

  Talleyrand, 7

  manslaughter

  Mitchell, 2

  manual labor

  Ruskin, 1

  maps

  Churchill, W., 1

  marksmanship

  Clemenceau, 8

  marriage

  Adams, J., 3

  Albert, E., 1

  Alexander VI, 1

  Allen, E., 3

  Astor, N., 2

  Auden, 2

  Azeglio, 1

  Balfour, 1

  Balzac, 1

  Baylis, 1

  Carlyle, 3

  Carnegie, 2

  Caroline of Ansbach, 2

  Caroline of Brunswick, 1

  Chaloner, 1

  Choate, 1

  Clark, M. W., 1

  Coke, 1

  Degas, 3

  Dole, 2

  Donne, 1

  Dryden, 2

  Edward VIII, 2

  Flanner, 1

  Ford, B., 1–3

  Gabor, 1

  Geoffrin, 1

  Haydn, 3

  Henri IV, 3

  Johnson, S., 21

  Laughton, 1

  Marx, G., 10

  Mitchum, 1

  Nivernais, 1

  Onassis, J., 1

  Parker, D., 5

  Philip, Prince, 6

  Reagan, N., 2

  Richelieu, 1

  Rogers, S., 1

  Siddons, 1

  Swift, 3

  Thatcher, 1

  Thorndike, 2

  Tooke, 2

  Victoria, 7

  Walker, 1

  Webb, 1

  marriage proposals. See also courtship

  Adenauer, 2

  Chanel, 3

  Grant, U. S., 1

  Lenya, 1

  Lewis, S., 1

  Victoria, 5

  Webster, D., 6

  masculinity

  Coward, 2

  Hellman, 1

  Rather, 1

  Roethke, 1

  masturbation

  Susann, 1

  materialism

  Schweitzer, 3

  mathematicians

  Archimedes, 3–4

  Babbage, 1

  Bernoulli, 1

  Diderot, 1

  Dirichlet, 1

  Euclid, 1

  Euler, 1

  Fermat, 1

  Gauss, 1–2

  Newton, 7

  Pascal, 1

  Ramanujan, 1

  Russell, B., 2–3

  mathematics

  Descartes, 2

  Lindemann, 1

  O’Neal, 1

  Pascal, 1

  Plato, 1–2

  matricide

  Agrippina, 2

  Bridger, 2

  Curley, 1

  medical advice. See cures; diagnoses; doctors

  mediocrity

  Hruska, 1

  meditation

  Newton, 8

  meetings

  Pitt, 2

  Thalberg, 1

  Twain, 10

  megalomania

  Caligula, 2

  Madonna, 1

  Pulitzer, 1

  memorials. See also tributes

  Bacall, 2

  memory

  Alfred, 2

  Barrymore, J., 4

  Barton, 1

  Cagney, 1

  Casals, 3

  Elizabeth I, 3

  Emerson, 9

  Foote, 1

  Gilbert, J., 1

  Jefferson, J., 1

  Johnson, S., 1

  Kant, 1

  Macaulay, 1

  Porson, 1

  Shatner, 1

  men

  Campbell, Mrs. P., 7

  Carlyle, 5

  Gelon, 1

  Livermore, 1

  West, 2

  mental illness

  Balzac, 8

  mercy

  Clemenceau, 8

  Coolidge, 5

  Elizabeth I, 2

  Peter I, 1

  Pythagoras, 1

  Schwarzenberg, 2

  mermaids

  Seferis, 1

  messages

  Darius I, 1

  Paine, 4

  meteorology

  Thales, 2

  method acting

  Olivier, 3

  mice

  Hatto, 1

  military, the

  Roosevelt, E., 3

  Talleyrand, 6

  Whistler, 2

  military ceremony

  Hopkinson, F., 1

  military leaders

  Adams, A. A., 1

  Bismarck, 2

  Cromwell, 3

  Eisenhower, 1, 4

  Frederick II, 1, 3, 9, 11

  Grant, U.S., 5, 8

  Jackson, T. J., 4, 7

  Nelson, 1, 3–4, 6

  Patton, 1–2

  Pétain, 1

  military strategy

  Crane, 1

  Forrest, 1

  Grant, U. S., 4

  Richelieu, 2

  millionaires

  Bennett, J. G., 3–4

  Bryan, 3

  Getty, 1–2

  Green, H., 2

  Hoffmann, 1

  Kennedy, J. F., 5

  Morgan, J. P., Jr., 1

  Rockefeller, J. D., Sr., 1

  Rockefeller, J. D., Jr., 1

  Thomson, R., 1

  mind-reading

  Churchill, R. H. S., 2

  Taylor, J., 1

  mirrors

  Carroll, L., 2

  Onassis, A., 1

  Shaw, 21

  mischief

  La Guardia, 4

  miserliness

  Aristippus, 1

  Foote, 7

  Marlborough, J. C., 1

  Mayer, 3

  More, H., 1

  Pliny, 1

  Rockefeller, J. D., Sr., 1

  Rockefeller, J. D., Jr., 1

  misers

  Perugino, 1

  Whitney, 1

  misfortunes

  Disraeli, 3

  misinterpretation

  Croesus, 1

  Reagan, R., 12

  mismanagement

  Talleyrand, 12

  misogyny

  Degas, 3

  misrepresentation

  Rops, 1

  missionaries

  Gregory I, 1–2

  mistaken identity. See also identification; recognition

  Alfred, 1

  Anderson, 1

  Anne, Princess, 1

  Balzac, 8

  Bankhead, 6, 8

  Benchley, 4

  Berra, 3

  Brandt, 1

  Carlton, 1

  Caruso, 2

  Choate, 4

  Coleridge, 5

  Crawford, 3

  Curie, 1

  Edward VII, 9

  Elizabeth II, 8

  Fairbanks, 1

  Gielgud, 2

  Jackson, T. J., 8

  Jacobi, 1

  Kemble, S., 1

  Kittredge, 1

  Kreisler, 1, 3

  Laïs, 1

  Lowell, R., 1

  Marx, G., 1

  Masaryk, 1

  Nabokov, 3

  Nixon, 9

  Peterborough, 1

  Reynolds, B., 3

  Rogers, S., 3

  Roosevelt, E., 3

  Roosevelt, T., 2

  Schweitzer, 5

  Slezak, 2

  Smith, S., 1

  Tennyson, 9

  Warner, 2

  Wolfe, T., 2

  mistakes

  Adams, Ansel, 1

  Khrushchev, 3

  Redgrave, 1

  Ruth, 5

  mistresses. See also infidelity; love affairs; lovers; prostitutes; sex

  Adams, J., 2

  Albemarle, 1

  Aumale, 1�
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  Boulanger, G., 2

  Caroline of Ansbach, 1

  Charles II, 9

  Gwyn, 1

  Hearst, 4

  Jérôme, 1

  Louis XV, 1

  Louis XVI, 2

  Napoleon, J. C. P., 1

  Parker, D., 4

  Poggio Bracciolini, 1

  Sedley, 1

  Voltaire, 8

  misunderstandings

  Beaumont, 1

  Berra, 9–10

  Butler, H. M., 1

  Churchill, W., 12

  de Gaulle, 1

  Eugénie, 2

  Foote, 5

  George V, 6

  Gladstone, 1

  Gosse, 1

  Heyerdahl, 1

  Jérôme, 1

  Jones, J., 3

  Lang, 1

  Nixon, 9, 11

  Penick, 1

  Victoria, 12

  mnemonics

  Reagan, R., 18

  mobs

  Johnson, A., 1

  Peterborough, 1

  models

  Hutton, L., 1

  Levant, 3

  Parrish, 1

  Taft, L., 1

  Titian, 1

  modesty

  Auden, 2, 4

  Constable, 2

  Guggenheim, 1

  Julia, 2

  Kennedy, J. F., 19

  Napoleon I, 2

  Oscar II, 1

  Paderewski, 1

  Robinson, E. A., 1

  Roosevelt, E., 4

  Rowland, 1

  Stravinsky, 8

  Whistler, 6

  Monaco

  Rainier III, 1

  money

  Addison, 3

  Agassiz, 1

  Altenberg, 1

  Alvanley, 1

  Anderson, 2

  Carver, 1

  Crosby, 1

  Darrow, 2

  Elizabeth I, 4

  Getty, 2

  Hecht, 1

  Kennedy, J. P., 4

  Lincoln, A., 6

  Mack, 1

  Marx, G., 7

  Mayer, 3

  Monroe, 4

  Napoleon I, 12

  Picasso, 3, 7–9

  Raft, 1

  Reagan, R., 4

  Rockefeller, J. D., Sr., 1

  Ross, 2

  Rossini, 7

  Rothschild, 1

  Shaw, 5

  Stravinsky, 5

  Tree, 6

  Turner, 7

  monkeys

  Crockett, 2

  monologues

  Adams, H., 1

  Shaw, 7

  monsters

  O’Toole, 2

  moodiness

  Edward VII, 6

  moon

  Armstrong, N., 1–3

  moose

  Jefferson, T., 4

  morality

  Carter, 3

  moralizing

  Arnold, 2

  Roosevelt, T., 4

  morbidity

  Selwyn, 1

  mortality

  Churchill, W., 5

  Empedocles, 1

  Goethe, 2

  mothers. See also children; fathers; parents

  Agrippina, 1–2

  Alembert, 1

  Alexander III, 1

  Allen, D., 1

  Cornelia, 1

  Coward, 8

  Feller, 1

  George VI, 2

  Guthrie, 1

  Lenclos, 4

  McCullers, 1

  O’Hara, F., 1

  Solomon, 1

  Victoria, 3

  Washington, 5

  Mother’s Day

  O’Hara, F., 1

  motivation

  Coward, 1

  Guthrie, 1

  mottoes

  Edward I, 1

  Edward III, 1

  mountain climbing

  Mallory, 1

  mourning. See bereavement; grief

  movie directors and producers

  Allen, W., 2

  Altman, 1

  Cocteau, 2

  Cukor, 1

  Curtiz, 1–2

  De Mille, 1

  Fiennes, 1

  Fonda, J., 1

  Ford, J., 4

  Goldwyn, 10

  Hitchcock, 2, 5

  Huston, 1

  Kazan, 1

  Kennedy, J. P., 2

  Korda, 1, 6

  Lucas, 1, 3

  Macready, 2

  Peckinpah, 1

  Shaw, 16

  Tarantino, 1

  Thalberg, 2

  Thurber, 2

  Welles, 1

  Wilder, 1–3

  movies

  Barrymore, J., 4

  Berra, 8

  Chaplin, 3

  Cocteau, 2

  Davies, M., 1

  DiCaprio, 1

  Eastwood, 1–2

  Fitzgerald, F. S., 1

  Flaherty, 1

  Fonda, H., 2

  Godard, 1

  Goldwyn, 3–4, 11, 15

  Huston, 1

  Johnson, N., 1

  Jolson, 1

  Thalberg, 2

  Thurber, 7

  Tree, 3

  Warner, 1

  Yusupov, 1

  murder. See also assassination; execution

  Agrippina, 2

  Alexander I, 1

  Alfonso XIII, 1

  Baker, J., 2

  Chandler, 1

  Christie, 2

  Fergusson, 1

  Levant, 1

  Louis XV, 2

  Mizner, W., 5

  Nero, 1

  Nesbit, 1

  Packer, 1

  Stalin, 1

  murderers

  Landru, 1–2

  Lowell, R., 2

  mushrooms

  Nero, 1

  music. See also concerts; opera

  Antheil, 1

  Armstrong, L., 4

  Bach, C. P. E., 1

  Beecham, Sir T., 4

  Casals, 4

  Fauré, 1

  Gillespie, 1

  Grant, U. S., 10

  Haydn, 1

  Hindemith, 1

  Johnson, S., 8–9

  Klemperer, 3

  Mahler, 1

  Mozart, 5

  Reger, 1

  Stravinsky, 2, 6–7

  Toscanini, 2

  Wellington, 10

  musical instruments. See also specific instruments

  Antheil, 1

  Segovia, 1

  musicians. See also composers; conductors; rehearsals; singers

  Adams, Ansel, 1

  Allen, F., 2

  Armstrong, L., 2, 5

  Arne, 1

  Bach, C. P. E., 1

  Bach, J. S., 1

  Barbirolli, 1

  Bartók, 1

  Beecham, Sir T., 2, 4–5, 7–10, 12

  Beethoven, 1, 5–6

  Blake, E., 1

  Blech, 1

  Brahms, 1–3, 6

  Bull, 1–2

  Bülow, 2

  Casals, 1–3

  Chopin, 1

  Cohan, 3

  Cotten, 1

  Davis, M., 2

  Dreyschock, 1

  Einstein, 16

  Elman, 1

  Enesco, 1

  Field, J., 1

  Foster, 1

  George III, 4

  Gershwin, G., 5

  Gilbert, W. S., 3

  Godowsky, 1

  Haydn, 2

  Heifetz, 1, 3–4

  Hess, 1

  Hofmann, 1–2

  Horowitz, 1–2

  Kreisler, 1–2

  Landowska, 1

  Lennon, 1

  Levant, 2, 5

  Liberace, 1

  Liszt, 2–3

  Mingus, 1

  Mozart, 4

  Pachmann, 1–3

  Paderewski, 1–5

  Perlman, 1

  Piatigorsky, 1

  Rachmaninoff, 1–2

  Reisenauer, 1

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  Rubinstein, Anton, 1

  Rubinstein, Artur, 2

  Saint-Saëns, 1

  Sarasate, 1–2

  Schnabel, 2–3

  Schönberg, 2

  Sibelius, 1

  Stokowski, 1

  Sullivan, A. S., 1

  Toscanini, 1–2

  Walter, 1

  Walton, 1

  Wieniawski, 1

  mustaches

  Dali, 2

  Drew, 1

  mutiny

  Cinque, 1

  naiveté

  Brown, G., 2

  Olivier, 1

  name-calling

  Nixon, 12

  names. See also nicknames

  Asquith, M., 1

  Charles II, 4

  Clay, H., 4

  Cooper, Gary, 1

  Edison, C., 1

  Emerson, 9

  Eric the Red, 1

  Erving, 1

  Fielding, 2

  Frederick William IV, 1

  George V, 5

  Goldwyn, 1, 13–14

  Hooker, 1

  Jackson, R., 1

  Jackson, T. J., 1

  Jullien, 1

  Kazan, 1

  Millay, 1

  Nixon, 8, 12

  Stravinsky, 3

  Walton, 1

  Watson, 1

  nationalism

  Johnson, S., 2, 10–12

  Wilson, W., 5

  nationality

  Churchill, W., 14

  Diogenes, 2

  Kennedy, J. P., 1

  nationalization

  Churchill, W., 29

  naturalists

  Jefferson, T., 12

  nature lovers

  Chapman, J., 1–2

  naval warfare

  Fulton, 1

  Perry, 1

  navigation

  Corrigan, 1

  Nazis

  Auden, 1

  Christian X, 1

  Einstein, 9

  Goering, 2

  La Guardia, 3

  Picasso, 5

  negotiations. See also peace agreements/treaties

  Bing, 4

  Foch, 3

  Goldwyn, 7

  Korda, 5

  Lucas, 1

  Ruth, 9

  Schmidt, 1

  Shaw, 16

  Tecumseh, 1

  neighbors

  Botticelli, 1

  Buffalmacco, 1

  Jusserand, 3

  nepotism

  Kennedy, J. F., 11

  Mayer, 5

  nervous breakdowns

  Lowell, R., 1

  nervousness

  Gielgud, 1

  Hyrtl, 1

  Koussevitsky, 2

  newlyweds

  Baldwin, 2

  news

  Hindenburg, 1

  Napoleon I, 14

  newspapers

  Barnum, 4

  Beaverbrook, 1

  Bennett, J. G., 1–2

  Bush, G., 2

  Clinton, 4

  Greeley, 1

  Greenwood, 1

  Hearst, 1–3

  James, J., 2

  Jefferson, T., 9

  Kennedy, J. F., 6

  Kipling, 1

  Pulitzer, 1

  nicknames

  Berra, 7

  Browning, E. B., 2

  Elizabeth II, 1

  Sutton, 1

  Nobel Prize

  Beckett, 2

  Bialik, 1

  Greene, 3

  O’Hara, J., 3

  nobility. See aristocrats; royalty

  noise

  Johnson, S., 9

  Sheridan, R. B., 4

  nonconformists

  Altman, 1

  Caesar, 1

  Shelley, M., 2

  nonviolence

  Tolstoy, 1

  North Pole

  Peary, 1

  Smith, S., 2

  noses

  Booth, J. B., 2

  Davenant, 1

  Gainsborough, 1

  Morgan, J. P., Sr., 5

  Wellington, 3

  notoriety

  Nast, 1

  novelists

  Trollope, F., 1

  nuclear power

  Fermi, 1

  Oppenheimer, 2