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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