Wilson, W., 3
press, the. See also journalists
Russell, B., 4
pride
Eisenhower, 3
Michelangelo, 1
Plato, 3
Tecumseh, 1
prime time
Reagan, R., 6
priorities
Stein, 11
prison
Asoka, 1
Curley, 1
Rose, 5
Skelton, 1
prisoners
Bader, 1
de Valera, 3
Frederick II, 2, 4
Gordon, 1
Maria Fëdorovna, 1
Richard I, 1
Voltaire, 1
Wilde, 15
prisoners of war
Perot, 1
Stuart, 1
privacy
Barrie, 7
Carlton, 1
Emerson, 3, 8
Steinbeck, 1
Stimson, 1
prizes. See also Academy Awards; awards; honors; Nobel Prize; Pulitzer Prize
Greene, 3
probability
Steinbrenner, 1
problems
Lloyd George, 3
procrastination
Augustine, 1
productivity
Dionysius II, 1
professional status
Ross, 4
profits
Euclid, 2
Newton, 9
promiscuity. See also infidelity; love affairs; mistresses; sex
Arnould, 4
Lenclos, 1, 4
Musset, 1
promises
Anthony, M., 1
Coppée, 1
Reynolds, J., 1
promotions
Francis I, 1
Magruder, 1
Ross, 1
prompters
Rehan, 1
pronunciation
Bottomley, 1
prophecy
Agrippina, 1
Aidan, 1
Caesar, 4
Caligula, 5
Cardano, 1
Collins, M., 1
Constantine, 1
Croesus, 1
Emerson, 7
Grey, 1
Henry IV, 1
Kallio, 1
Louis XI, 1
Newton, 6
Wells, 2
propositions
Nabokov, 2
Rachel, 1
Susann, 5
Thurber, 5
propriety
Ben-Gurion, 1
Edward VII, 3
Parker, D., 4
Trollope, A., 1
Twain, 17
Ustinov, 1
proselytizing
Chesterfield, 2
prosperity
Hecht, 1
prostitutes
Barrows, 1
Bolingbroke, 1
Chaliapin, 1
Freud, 1
Guimond, 1
Mitford, 1
Parker, D., 6
Perelman, 1
Wilde, 17
protocol
Busby, 1
Edward VII, 10
Kingsale, 1
Laird, 1
provincialism
Adenauer, 1
Thoreau, 6
proximity
Riley, 2
prudery
Blume, 1
Johnson, S., 4
Parker, D., 11
Sterne, 1
Victoria, 15
pseudonyms
Sharp, 1
psychiatrists
Kaufman, 14
Williams, Tennessee, 1
psychoanalysis
Gershwin, G., 2
psychology
Beerbohm, 2
Galen, 1
public appearances
Coolidge, 19
public image
Gandhi, 1, 3
Kennedy, R., 2
publicity
Bernhardt, 6
O’Neill, 4
public service
Taft, W. H., 7
publishers
Balzac, 3
Burke, 1
Byron, 4
Campbell, T., 1
Churchill, W., 12
Cocteau, 4
Coleridge, 1
Fielding, 1
Greene, 2
Hugo, 1
Johnson, S., 3
Kerouac, 2
Milton, 1
Susann, 4
publishing
Carnegie, 4
Cerf, 1
Pulitzer Prize
Mitchell, 1
punctuality
Churchill, W., 4
Lamb, Charles, 2
Palmerston, 1
punctuation
Fiske, 1
Flaubert, 2
Maria Fëdorovna, 1
Sheridan, R. B., 10
punishment
Augustus, 6
Bottomley, 2
Chapman, J., 1
Chapman, J. J., 1
Cibber, 1
Dole, 6
Frederick William I, 2
Hatto, 1
Milton, 2
Raleigh, 5
Russell, J., 2
Stubbs, J., 1
Webster, D., 3
Xerxes, 2
puns
Addison, 1
Asquith, M., 1
Bacon, 1
Booth, J. B., 2
Brown, J. M., 2
Bruce, 1
Cardozo, 1
Caroline of Brunswick, 2
Chase, S. P., 1
Choate, 5
Clive, 1
Coke, 1
Dennis, 2
Erskine, 2
Gilbert, W. S., 1, 6–7
Gogarty, 1
Grote, 1
Kelvin, 1
Lear, 4
Lillie, 1
Lincoln, A., 3
Mahaffy, 2
Milnes, 1
Morley, C., 1
Nabokov, 4
Napier, 1
Norbury, 3
Palmerston, 2
Parker, D., 5–6
Perelman, 1
Rabelais, 2
Riley, 1
Rodgers, 2
Roosevelt, F. D., 4
Shaftesbury, 2
Trilling, 1
Zangwill, 1–2
purity
Beethoven, 7
Quakers
Cope, 1
Dalton, 1
Fox, G., 1
Waln, 1
qualifications
Landers, 1
quarrels. See arguments questions
Bowles, P., 1
Reagan, R., 17
Stengel, 7
quotations
Adams, H., 1
Porson, 2
racism
Blake, E., 1
Disraeli, 1
Douglass, 1
Dumas père, 2
Everett, 1
Horne, 1
Jessel, 1
Kennedy, J. F., 14
Lee, R. E., 5
Louis, J., 2
Seward, 1
Smith, B., 1
Truth, 1
Virchow, 2
radio
Reagan, R., 1
rain
Sainte-Beuve, 1
Twain, 8
rank
Napoleon I, 17
Paley, 1
rationalism
Paine, 2
Talleyrand, 9
rationalists
Pompadour, 1
reading
Cervantes Saavedra, 1
Cooper, Gary, 3
Leonard, 1
Franklin, 7
Stout, 1
Truman, 10
Walpole, R., 2
real estate
Astor, J. J., 2
Hecht, 1
realism
Goldsmith, 1
John, A., 1
&nbs
p; Ouida, 1
Picasso, 6
Renoir, 1
Trollope, A., 2
reality
Fonda, H., 2
Nicholson, 1
reassurance
Columbus, 1
Davis, M., 1
Onassis, J., 5
Twain, 8
rebukes
Apelles, 2
Madison, D., 1
Rivarol, 1
Stein, 1, 8
recantations
Cranmer, 1
recklessness
Caesar, 5
recluses
Barnes, 1–2
recognition. See also identification; mistaken identity
Braque, 1
Cagney, 1
Copland, 1
Crawford, 3
Drew, 1
Ferdinand I (Bulgaria), 1
Irving, H., 1
Lillie, 3
Marx, G., 6
Michelangelo, 1
Newman, 1
recommendations
Washington, 10
reconciliations
Byrd, 1
Frederick II, 7
Gainsborough, 2
Parker, D., 4
Sudermann, 1
Victoria, 7
records
Maris, 2
Rose, 4
recourse
Quisenberry, 2
recovery
Browning, E. B., 1
references
Woollcott, 2
refusals
Dali, 7
Madison, D., 1
Sherman, W. H., 3
regulations
Elizabeth II, 4
rehearsals
Barrie, 4
Blech, 1
Chaliapin, 2
Coward, 1, 6
Handel, 2, 4
Massenet, 1
Mozart, 6
Parker, D., 8
Toscanini, 1–2, 6–7, 9
Tree, 4
Voltaire, 2
reigns (terms of office)
Cicero, 2
Elizabeth I, 6
reincarnation
MacLaine, 1
Pythagoras, 1
rejections
Alembert, 1
Diogenes, 7
Dickens, 4
Disraeli, 4
Glyn, 1
Harlow, 1
Kennedy, E., 2
Kissinger, 4
Shaw, 1
Wilson, E., 1
rejoinders
Churchill, W., 7
relatives. See also family
John XXIII, 2
Johnson, L. B., 6
Molnár, 3
relaxation
Eliot, T. S., 6
relics
Beuno, 1
religion
Adler, 1
Allen, E., 1
Ammonius, 1
Armstrong, N., 3
Belloc, 1
Buñuel, 1
Coleridge, 4
Darrow, 3
Davies, E., 1
Detourbey, 1
Diderot, 1
Doyle, 2
Erasmus, 1
Fields, 5
Gide, 1
Henry IV, 2
Hill, R., 1
Hitchcock, 6
Huxley, T. H., 1
Jackson, T. J., 2
Kennedy, J. F., 10
Kinglake, 1
Laplace, 1–2
Melbourne, 2–3
Montecuccoli, 1
Paine, 2, 4
Servetus, 1
Shaftesbury, 1
Smith, A. E., 1
Talleyrand, 3, 9
Voltaire, 14
Warburton, 1
Waugh, 4
religious belief
Talleyrand, 9
religious conversion
Asoka, 1
Christina, 1
Chwolson, 1
Eddy, 1
Gregory I, 1
Henry IV, 2
remedies
Trollope, A., 4
Twain, 21
remorse
Cromwell, 4
remuneration
George III, 7
Stravinsky, 13
renovations
Thurber, 1
reporters. See journalists
reprisals
Martin, 1
Thalberg, 1
Republicans
Dole, 5
reputation
Arnould, 2
Caesar, 3
Goldwyn, 13
Jackson, A., 1, 4
Kreisler, 3
Perón, 1
Rockefeller, J. D., Jr., 1
Rodgers, 1
Whitman, 1
Williams, Ted, 1
resemblance, physical. See also appearance; mistaken identity
Churchill, W., 25
Twain, 19
resignations
Caray, 1
Lloyd George, 6
respect
Barton, 2
Burns, 3
responsibility
Truman, 7
rest
Hayes, H., 4
Napoleon I, 3
restaurants. See also dinners; food
Berra, 2
Feydeau, 2
Garland, 1
Lang, 1
Pinza, 1
restraint
Fonda, J., 1
résumés
Campbell, Mrs. P., 2
retirement
Archer, G., 1
Barrows, 1
Coolidge, 23
Garbo, 4
Mantle, 4
Navratilova, 1–2
Walpole, R., 2
Williams, Ted, 3
retorts
Clinton, 1
Paine, 3
Philip, Prince, 6
Thurlow, 1
Vespasian, 3
retribution
Divine, 2
Feller, 1
Quin, 1
reunions
Lafayette, 3
Victoria, 17
revenge
Fleetwood, 1
Hook, 1
Ibn Saud, 1
Michelangelo, 3
Narváez, 1
Nilsson, 1
Peter I, 2
Sedley, 1
Toscanini, 5
Vanderbilt, C., 1
Voltaire, 3
Welles, 3
reverence
Paderewski, 3
reverse psychology
Mantle, 1
reviews
Berra, 8
Stravinsky, 13
revisions
Kissinger, 4
Lowell, R., 3
revocations
Kidd, 1
revolutionaries
Engels, 1
Franklin, 3, 9
Paine, 1
Talleyrand, 11
Trotsky, 1
revolutions
Franklin, 5
Lear, 3
rewards
Herman, 1
Xerxes, 2
Rhodes scholars
Rhodes, 4
ridicule
MacLaine, 1
riff-raff
Kennedy, J. P., 5
rings
Raglan, 1
risks
Stevenson, A. E., 9
rivalry
Bankhead, 9
Carnegie, 2
Godowsky, 1
Greenwood, 1
Heifetz, 2
Hemingway, 6
Lehmann, 1
Napoleon, J. C. P., 1
Parchmann, 2
Scott, 1
rivals
Apelles, 1
Arlen, 1
Brancusi, 1
Callas, 3
Charles V, 1
Clay, H., 2
Ford, G. R., 2
Gibbon, 2
Goldwyn, 7, 10
Lincoln, A., 10
Mayer, 2
Merman, 1
Meyerbeer, 2
Nesbit, 1
Rossini, 1
Sheridan, R. B., 11
Sudermann, 1
Zeuxis, 1
rivers
Frederick William IV, 1
Queensberry, 1
Richelieu, 2
robbers/robbery. See theft/thieves
robots
Reuther, 1
roles
Paquin, 1
romance
Baylis, 1
Rome
Nero, 2
royalties
James, H., 5
Jones, J., 2
royalty
Albert, Prince, 3
Alexander III, 7
Armstrong, L., 2
Beecham, Sir T., 6
Bernadotte, 1
Bismarck, 5
Buckingham, 1
Caroline of Ansbach, 1
Charles, Prince, 2
Charles Francis Joseph, 1
Charles II, 1, 6
Charles X, 1
Cunninghame Graham, 1
Disraeli, 11
Edward VII, 2, 4–5, 8
Edward VIII, 2–3
Eleanor of Aquitaine, 1
Elizabeth I, 1, 2, 7
Elizabeth II, 2, 5, 11–12
Elizabeth the Queen Mother, 1–2, 4–5
Euclid, 1
Farouk I, 1
Ferdinand I (Austria), 1
Ferdinand I (Bulgaria), 1
Ferguson, 1
Fontenelle, 1
Francis Joseph, 1–2
Franklin, 9
George II, 1–2
George IV, 3
George V, 2, 7
Howard, C., 1
Kingsale, 1
Lear, 1
Lennon, 1
Leopold II, 1–2
Louis XIV, 1–2, 8
Mansart, 1
Marlborough, J. S. C., 1
Mary, Queen Consort, 1–2
Metternich, P., 1
Napoleon, E., 1
Oscar II, 1
Patti, 1
Philip, Prince, 1–4
Philip II, 3
Philip V, 1
Quin, 1
Shakespeare, 2
Vespasian, 3
Victoria 1, 3, 6–7, 11, 13
William I (Prussia), 2
Woollcott, 6
Rubicon River
Caesar, 4
rudeness
Abernethy, 1–2
Anne, Princess, 3
Barrie, 7
Belloc, 2
Bernard, 5
Churchill, R. F. E. S., 2
Goering, 1
Hogan, 1
Vespasian, 3
Waugh, 1, 4
Wharton, 2
rules
Fitzgerald, F. S., 3
rumors
Davis, B., 1
Hudson, 1
Russell, B., 4
runners
Nurmi, 1
Russia
Pushkin, 1
Russians
Tennyson, 6
ruthlessness
Kennedy, R., 1
Napoleon I, 11
Roosevelt, E., 2
Sabbath, the
Jackson, T. J., 2
sacrifice
Edward VII, 2
Grassini, 1
Louis XVI, 3
Nelson, 1
Oates, 1
Sidney, 1
sailors
Gilbert, H., 1
Nelson, 1
saints
Beuno, 1
du Deffand, 1
Francis of Assisi, 1
salaries. See also fees
Alcott, A. B., 1
Alexander III, 3
Anderson, 2
Churchill, W., 8
Coward, 1
Dale, 1
Doyle, 1
Fontanne, 1
Garbo, 1
George III, 2
Gershwin, G., 4
Henry, 2
Howells, 2
Kennedy, J. F., 18
Lamar, 1
Marx, G., 1
Rochefort, 2
Ruth, 1, 9
Sargent, J. S., 1
Talleyrand, 2
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