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by Clifton Fadiman

Thurber, 2

  Wilder, 3

  sales

  Goldwater, 1

  saloons

  Riley, 2

  salvation

  Allen, E., 1

  Salvation Army

  Bankhead, 6

  Samaritans

  Varah, 1

  sanatoriums

  Parker, D., 17

  sanity

  Muggeridge, 1

  Onassis, J., 10

  sarcasm

  Campbell, Mrs. P., 3

  Cowl, 1

  Ellenborough, 1

  Nero, 5

  scenarios

  Faulkner, 5

  Ford, J., 1

  Woollcott, 10

  scenery

  Mahler, 1

  scene stealers

  Monroe, 6

  schedules

  Ford, J., 4

  scholars. See also academics

  Avempace, 1

  Gaisford, 1

  Goethe, 4

  Lewis, C. S., 2

  Mahaffy, 1

  Pope, Alexander, 2

  Porson, 2, 5

  Routh, 2

  Whewell, 2

  schools. See also education; universities

  Taft, H. D., 1

  scientists

  Archimedes, 1–2

  Avery, 1

  Baeyer, 1

  Beerbohm, 4

  Bohr, 1

  Chaplin, 1

  Cuvier, 1

  Darwin, C. R., 1

  Einstein, 2, 4–6, 9, 12–13, 15–16, 18, 21, 23

  Faraday, 1

  Fleming, A., 1

  Huxley, T. H., 1

  Kekulé von Stradonitz, 1

  Kelvin, 1–2

  Kirchhoff, 1

  Laplace, 1–2

  Lavoisier, 1

  Millikan, 1

  Newton, 1, 3–4, 6, 8, 10

  Pringle, 1

  Schönbein, 1

  Scotland

  Johnson, S., 11–13

  Scottish, the

  Wilkes, 1

  screenwriters

  Cohn, 3

  scripts

  Evans, E., 5

  Fonda, H., 2

  Ford, J., 4

  Tracy, 1

  sculptors

  Donatello, 1

  Epstein, 1

  Faillières, 1

  Michelangelo, 1–2, 4, 7

  Renoir, 2, 4

  Taft, L., 1

  sculpture. See also statues

  Garrick, 1

  Ghiberti, 1

  Giorgione, 1

  Guggenheim, 1

  Renoir, 2, 4

  sea

  Napoleon, E., 1

  sea travel

  Philip, Prince, 1

  seances

  Vanderbilt, C., 3

  seasickness

  Cardozo, 1

  secretaries

  La Guardia, 2

  Napoleon I, 6

  secretiveness

  Mehmed II, 1

  secrets

  Wellington, 2

  security

  Anderson, 2

  Thoreau, 3

  seduction

  Dali, 1

  Divine, 1

  Dumas fils, 1

  Holliday, 1

  Inchbald, 1

  Korda, 4

  Scholl, 2

  Shakespeare, 1

  self-defense

  Cope, 1

  self-deprecation

  Beethoven, 8

  Bush, B., 1

  Crenshaw, 1

  self-importance

  Acheson, 3

  Ali, 2–3

  Chateaubriand, 1

  Comte, 1

  Goering, 1

  Helmsley, 1

  Jackson, R., 2–3

  Jackson, T. J., 7

  Joyce, James, 2

  Labouchere, 1

  Lowell, Amy, 2

  Lunt, 1

  Nero, 4

  Northcote, 1

  Oldfield, 1

  Paley, 1

  Reagan, N., 5

  Truman, 12

  Webster, N., 2

  self-knowledge

  de Gaulle, 3

  Einstein, 23

  selflessness

  Confucius, 2

  Elizabeth I, 5

  Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 2

  Oates, 1

  self-ridicule

  Churchill, W., 16

  semantics

  Tooke, 1

  Senate, the

  Truman, 1

  senility

  Swift, 6

  sensationalism

  Hearst, 1

  Troy, 1

  sensitivity

  Roethke, 1

  sentimentality

  Kennedy, J. F., 8

  serendipity

  Haydn, 1

  Poussin, 1

  Sargent, J. S., 4

  sermons

  Allen, E., 1

  Bossuet, 1

  Canning, 2

  Coolidge, 1

  Maury, 1

  Parr, 2

  Smith, S., 6

  Spurgeon, 2

  Swift, 4

  Wesley, 2

  servants

  Carter, 6

  Chamberlain, A., 2

  Churchill, W., 31

  Diogenes, 3

  Dunsany, 1

  Fairbanks, 1

  George III, 6

  Hoffmann, 1

  Lawrence, T. E., 2

  Marx, G., 1

  Morgan, J. P., Jr., 2

  Offenbach, 1

  Rubinstein, Anton, 1

  Sheridan, R. B., 4

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

  Adams, J., 3

  Alexander VI, 1

  Arnould, 4

  Aumale, 5

  Balzac, 6

  Bernhardt, 5

  Bolingbroke, 1

  Carter, 5

  Charles II, 4

  Coolidge, 9

  Coward, 5

  De Mille, 1

  de Valera, 1

  Dumas fils, 4

  Fields, 1

  Foote, 4

  Ford, B., 2

  Freud, 1

  Holliday, 1

  Johnson, S., 23

  Langtry, 1

  Lenclos, 1, 4

  Louis XVI, 1

  Lyndhurst, 1

  Mathilde, 2

  Musset, 1

  Nabokov, 2, 4

  Parker, D., 1, 5

  Petronius, 1

  Raleigh, 4

  Richelieu, 1

  Thurber, 5

  Voltaire, 8

  West, 1

  Wilson, Harold, 2

  sex appeal

  Hayes, H., 2

  sex education

  Aubernon, 3

  sex symbols

  Hayworth, 1

  sexism

  Astor, N., 1

  Atkinson, 1

  Brontë, 2

  Elizabeth II, 4

  Fuseli, 1

  Hellman, 1

  James I, 3

  Johnson, S., 18

  Livermore, 1

  Luce, C. B., 2

  Stanton, E. C., 1

  Thomas, M. C., 1

  shabbiness

  Coleridge, 6

  shadows

  Brown, J. M., 1

  Gosse, 1

  shallowness

  Lucas, 4

  sharing

  Alexander III, 9

  Confucius, 2

  Sidney, 1

  shaving

  Macaulay, 3

  Piccard, 1

  Shaw, 11

  shellshock

  Patton, 1

  ships

  Lawrence, J., 1

  William II, 1

  shipwreck

  Gilbert, H., 1

  shoes

  Maris, 1

  Nilsson, 4

  show business

  Caray, 2

  shyness

  Addison, 1

  Robinson, E. A., 4

  Roethke,
1

  Sandburg, 2

  Strug, 1

  Twain, 10

  Wodehouse, 2

  signs

  Parker, D., 2

  silence

  Chesterton, 5

  Emerson, 2

  Macaulay, 2

  simplicity

  Auerbach, 2

  Santayana, 1

  sincerity

  Foch, 5

  Mirabeau, 3

  sinecures

  Robinson, E. A., 2

  singers/singing. See also composers; conductors; musicians

  Beecham, Sir T., 11–12

  Bernstein, L., 3

  Bing, 1

  Caruso, 3

  Chaliapin, 1, 3

  Cherubini, 2

  Fauré, 1

  Fitzgerald, E., 1

  Foote, 3

  Galiani, 1

  Galli-Curci, 1

  Grassini, 1

  Handel, 2–3

  Horne, 1

  Joyce, James, 3

  Lehmann, 1

  McCormack, 1

  Martinelli, 1

  Melba, 2

  Mozart, 6–7

  Nilsson, 1–4

  Pinza, 1

  Rossini, 3–4

  Schumann-Heink, 2

  Tetrazzini, 1

  Toscanini, 6

  Truman, 4

  single-mindedness

  Einstein, 13

  Gauss, 2

  Nabokov, 1

  Olivier, 2

  Pope, Arthur Upham, 1

  Russell, B., 2

  Morel, 1

  sins

  Coolidge, 1

  Luther, 1

  Teresa, 1

  skeptics, religious

  du Deffand, 1

  Grant, U. S., 9

  Kinglake, 1

  slavery

  Anthony, 1

  Aristippus, 1

  Carlyle, 2

  Hayes, H., 3

  Henson, 1

  Phillips, 1–2

  Sedgwick, T., 1

  Seward, 1

  Stowe, 1–2

  sleep

  Albert, Prince, 1

  Buffalmacco, 1

  Clurman, 2

  De Moivre, 1

  Devonshire, 1

  Hindenburg, 1

  Hitchcock, 3

  Molnár, 1

  Roosevelt, F. D., 10

  Sandburg, 1

  Susann, 3

  Warner, 3

  sleeping

  Rubinstein, Anton, 2

  Schnabel, 3

  Wesley, 2

  slogans

  Quayle, 3

  Reagan, R., 2

  slumps

  Mantle, 1

  Van Slyke, 1

  slums

  Churchill, W., 3

  smoking

  Arnim, 1

  Baum, 1

  Beecham, Sir T., 3

  Brahms, 9

  de Valera, 3

  Edison, T. A., 2

  Edward VII, 3

  Freud, 2

  Haeseler, 1

  Hammett, 3

  Martinelli, 1

  Metternich, P., 1

  Napoleon III, 1

  Raleigh, 3

  Steinmetz, 1

  Twain, 16

  Victoria, 9

  smugglers/smuggling

  Arno, 1

  snakes

  Altman, 1

  Chapman, J., 1–2

  snobbery

  Bing, 5

  Bowen, L., 1

  Brummell, 8

  Cartland, 1

  Churchill, W., 3

  Coote, 1

  Dumas père, 2

  Faulkner, 7

  Gardner, I. S., 2, 3

  Gilbert, W. S., 6

  Gillespie, 1

  Iphicrates, 1

  Jefferson, T., 6

  Lawrence, T. E., 2

  Lewis, C. S., 3

  Lieven, 1

  Marx, G., 4

  Pope, Alexander, 3

  Schnabel, 2

  Selwyn, 4

  Tennyson, 1

  Thackeray, 2

  Thiers, 1

  Vesey, 1

  Whistler, 3

  snoring

  Duse, 2

  snubs

  Blessington, 1

  Brummell, 3

  Byron, 3

  Churchill, W., 2

  Cicero, 1

  Dumas fils, 1

  Ferdinand I, 1

  Kemble, F., 1

  Lillie, 2

  Marx, G., 6

  Picasso, 13

  Selwyn, 4

  Shaw, 1

  Taylor, L., 1

  Wellington, 11

  Wilson, W., 5

  social class

  Cagney, 2

  Zhou Enlai, 1

  social climbing

  Edward VII, 2

  Gilbert, W. S., 6

  socialism

  Carnegie, 3

  Shaw, 5

  Stalin, 3

  soldiers

  Augustus, 2

  Butler, B. F., 2

  Cambridge, 1

  Cambronne, 1

  Eisenhower, 1

  Frederick II, 1, 5, 8

  Grant, U. S., 2

  Grenfell, 1

  Hay, 1

  Hemingway, 5

  Henri IV, 1

  Jackson, T. J., 3

  Lincoln, A., 1, 15, 20, 22, 28

  Louis, J. 2

  MacArthur, D., 1

  Menshikov, 1

  Montague, 1

  Napoleon I, 10

  Patton, 1

  Peard, 1

  Pitt, 1

  Ross, 1

  Sedgwick, J., 1

  Sidney, 1

  Stark, 1

  Summerall, 1

  Suvorov, 1

  Thackeray, 3

  Washington, 3, 6–7

  Wellington, 4–5

  Wolfe, J., 1

  solicitation

  Erskine, 1

  songs

  Grant, U. S., 10

  Richard I, 1

  sophistication

  Cooper, Gary, 2

  sorrow

  Nero, 4

  South Pole

  Oates, 1

  Speaker of the House

  Adams, J. Q., 3

  speakers

  Churchill, W., 26

  Jefferson, T., 14

  speeches

  Berra, 4

  Burke, 2, 4

  Chamberlain, J., 1

  Charles II, 7

  Chesterton, 3

  Choate, 3

  Churchill, W., 10, 26

  Clay, H., 1

  Coolidge, 8, 15

  Demosthenes, 2

  Depew, 1

  de Valera, 2

  Dole, 4

  Foote, 1

  Ford, G. R., 1

  Garfield, 1

  Heggen, 1

  Henri IV, 4

  Howe, I., 1

  Humphrey, 1

  Johnson, L. B., 8

  Madison, J., 1

  Newton, 5

  Nixon, 1, 6

  Peale, 1

  Pope, Arthur Upham, 1

  Reagan, R., 11

  Roosevelt, F. D., 9

  Roosevelt, T., 5

  Sheridan, R. B., 9

  Taft, W. H., 4

  Untermeyer, 1

  speechwriters

  Johnson, L. B., 5

  spelling

  Favras, 1

  Fielding, 2

  Rachel, 2

  Sellers, 1

  spiders

  Robert I, 1

  spiderwebs

  Fleming, I., 1

  spies/spying

  Hale, 1

  Kissinger, 1

  Martin, 2

  Onassis, A., 1

  spiritualism

  Doyle, 2–4

  Vanderbilt, C., 3

  Yeats, 1

  spiritualists

  Mayo, 1

  spontaneity

  Churchill, W., 10

  spoonerisms

  Spoo
ner, 2

  sports. See also athletes; specific sports

  Eliot, C. W., 1

  sportsmanship

  Budge, 1

  Caligula, 1

  Louis XIV, 7

  sportswriters

  Ruth, 5

  spring

  Santayana, 2

  stage fright

  Casals, 2

  Cibber, 1

  Heggen, 1

  stamp collecting

  George V, 1

  stamps

  Charles Francis Joseph, 1

  stardom

  Hayes, H., 3

  O’Toole, 2

  stargazing

  Thales, 3

  starvation

  Hemingway, 1

  statesmen. See also diplomats; politicians; presidents

  Gandhi, 1, 3

  Talleyrand, 11–12

  Truman, 12

  statistics

  Stalin, 2

  statues. See also sculptures

  Cato, 3

  Donatello, 1

  Hideyoshi, 1

  Julius II, 1

  Rogers, W., 2

  Rossini, 7

  Stalin, 3

  Wellington, 12

  status

  Elizabeth II, 10

  steadfastness

  Elizabeth the Queen Mother, 2

  Stockbridge, Massachusetts

  Sedgwick, C. M., 1

  stomachache

  Ruth, 2

  storms

  Caesar, 5

  Oates, 1

  storytellers

  Baum, 2

  Melville, 1

  Twain, 12

  strategy

  Smith, F. E., 1

  Wills, 2

  streakers

  Niven, 1

  strength

  Strug, 1

  strife

  Azeglio, 1

  strikes

  Davis, B., 1

  Gould, 1

  Welles, 2

  stubbornness

  Clemenceau, 7

  Garbo, 1

  students

  Atkinson, 1

  Bunsen, 1

  Cohen, 1

  George III, 4

  James, W., 1

  Jefferson, T., 12

  Livermore, 1

  Mascagni, 1

  Oppenheimer, 1

  Piatigorsky, 1

  Plato, 1

  Reagan, R., 2

  Rossini, 5

  Thurlow, 1

  Truman, 8

  Untermeyer, 2

  Ustinov, 2

  stuntmen

  Reynolds, B., 1

  stunts

  Brodie, S., 1

  stupidity

  Barnes, 3

  Bernstein, L., 3

  Stein, 1

  stutterers

  Bennett, A., 3

  Carleton, 1

  Darwin, E., 1

  Davies, M., 1

  Lamb, Charles, 3

  submarines

  Fulton, 1

  success

  Beethoven, 1

  Bialik, 1

  Darrow, 5

  Ford, J., 2

  Getty, 1

  Hagen, 1

  Hammerstein, 1

  Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 3

  Hoover, 1

  James, H., 5

  Kissinger, 5

  Liberace, 1

  Muir, 1

  Stoppard, 1

  successors

  Jefferson, T., 3

  suffering

  Roosevelt, E., 1

  suicide

  Anthony, M., 1

  Antisthenes, 2

  Arria, 1

  Augustus, 6

  Berners, 5

  Boulanger, G., 1

  Cardano, 1

  Charondas, 1

  Chatterton, 1

  Cleopatra, 1

  Hannibal, 1

  Lenclos, 4

  Nero, 4–5

  Nerval, 2

  Sanders, 1

  Shaw, 19

  Vatel, 1

  Wells, 4

  Wylie, 1

  superstition

  Bohr, 1

  Browning, R., 3

  Columbus, 3

  Frith, 1

  Mazarin, 2

  Pericles, 1

  Ruth, 8

  Thales, 1

  William I (England), 1

 

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