Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes
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Onassis, Aristotle
Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy, 9
Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy
Kennedy, John Fitzgerald, 13, 22
Kennedy, Robert, 3
O’Neal, Tatum
O’Neill, Eugene
Harlow, Jean, 1
Oppenheimer, J. Robert
Orlando, V. E.
Wilson, Woodrow, 5
Orléans, François d’
Rachel, 1
Orsay, Alfred-Guillaume-Gabriel d’
Oscar II
Ossian
Johnson, Samuel, 19
Oswin, King
St. Aidan, 1
Oswy, King
St. Aidan, 1
O’Toole, Peter
Ott, Mel
Stengel, Casey, 1
Otto
Ouida
Owen, Marv
Feller, Bob, 1
Owen, Robert
Pachmann, Vladimir de
Packer, Alfred
Paderewski, Ignace Jan
Masaryk, Jan, 1
Paetus, Caecina
Arria, 1
Pagnol, Marcel
Simenon, Georges, 2
Pahlavi, Reza
Bacall, Lauren, 1
Paige, Leroy Robert “Satchel”
Paine, Thomas
Paley, William
Palmer, Arnold
Nicklaus, Jack, 1
Palmer, Bertha Honore
Gardner, Isabella Stewart, 3
Palmer, Jim
Weaver, Earl, 2
Palmerston, Henry John Temple
Paquin, Anna
Park, Mungo
Parker, Dorothy
Bankhead, Talullah, 2
Benchley, Robert, 7, 9
Coolidge, Calvin, 25
Kaufman, George S., 6
Ross, Harold, 2
Woollcott, Alexander, 2
Parker, Henry Taylor
Parker, Sir Hyde
Nelson, Horatio, 4
Parker, Quannah
Parmenion
Alexander III, 6
Parr, Jack
Allen, Fred, 3
Parr, Samuel
Parrhasius
Zeuxis, 1
Parrish, Maxfield
Parsons, John
Norbury, John Toler, 1
Partridge, John
Pascal, Blaise
Pater, Walter
Patti, Adelina
Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio, 3
Patton, George S., Jr.
Paul I, Czar
Alexander I, 1
Paul III
Michelangelo Buonarroti, 3
Paul VI
Rizzuto, Phil, 1
Pavlen, Adrian
Nurmi, Paavo, 1
Peale, Norman Vincent
Peard, John Whitehead
Pearson, Hesketh
Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm, 5
Pearson, Richard
Jones, John Paul, 1
Peary, Robert Edwin
Peck, Gregory
Peckinpah, Sam
Peel, Robert
Byron, George Gordon, 1
Pembroke, Thomas Herbert
Penick, Harvey
Penn, William
Charles II, 5
Fox, George, 1
Pennell, Joseph
Bellows, George Wesley, 1
Penrose, Roland
Braque, Georges, 1
Picasso, Pablo, 17
Percy, Elizabeth
Somerset, Charles Seymour, 1
Perdiccas
Alexander III, 3
Perelman, S. J.
Pericles
Alcibiades, 1
Perkins, Frances
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 3
Perkins, Maxwell
Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 2
Hemingway, Ernest, 3
Wolfe, Thomas, 1
Perlman, Itzhak
Perón, Eva Duarte de
Perón, Juan
Borges, Jorge, 1
Perot, H. Ross
Perry, Oliver Hazard
Pershing, John
Stanton, Charles E., 1
Perugino, Peter
Pétain, Philippe
Peter I
Peter III
Alexander I, 1
Peterborough, Charles Mordaunt
Peterson, Verita
Bogart, Humphrey, 1
Petronius, Gaius
Phelps, William Lyon
Philip, John Woodward
Philip, Prince
Anne, Princess, 2
Elizabeth II, 3, 4, 6, 9
Philip II
Alexander III, 1, 2
Dionysius II, 1
Philip III
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1
Philip V
Philip the Acarnanian
Alexander III, 5
Philipp, Isidore
Bartók, Béla, 1
Philippe d’Orléans
Voltaire, 1
Phillips, Wendell
Phocion
Demosthenes, 1
Piatigorsky, Gregor
Furtwängler, Wilhelm, 1
Heifetz, Jascha, 2
Picabia, Francis
Picasso, Pablo
Braque, Georges, 1
Diaghilev, Sergei, 3
Matisse, Henri, 1
Stein, Gertrude, 9
Piccard, Auguste
Piccard, Jean Felix
Piccard, Auguste, 1
Pillet, Léon
Meyerbeer, Giacomo, 3
Pinckney, Charles
Adams, John, 2
Pinter, Harold
Pinza, Ezio
Piper, John
George VI, 1
Pitt, William
Planck, Max
Einstein, Albert, 3
Plath, Sylvia
Plato
Pliny the Younger
Plon-Plon
Napoleon, Joseph Charles Paul, 1
Plotinus
Poe, Edgar Allan
Poggio Bracciolini, Gian Francesco
Polidori, John
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, 1
Polk, James K.
Pollack, Sydney
Fonda, Jane, 2
Pollack, Tom
Lucas, George, 1
Pollini, Maurizio
Previn, André, 1
Pompadour, Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson
Pompeia
Caesar, Julius, 3
Pompey
Caesar, Julius, 5
Pope, Alexander
Kneller, Sir Godfrey, 1
Pope, Arthur Upham
Pope, John
Jackson, “Stonewall,” 7
Stuart, James Ewell Brown, 1
Porson, Richard
Porter, Katherine Anne
McCullers, Carson, 2
Wylie, Elinor, 1
Portman, Eric
Evans, Edith, 2
Porus
Alexander III, 7
Pougnet, Jean
Beecham, Thomas, 9
Pourtalès, Mme. de
Eugénie, Empress, 1
Poussin, Nicolas
Powell, Anthony
Vidal, Gore, 1
Previn, André
Monteux, Pierre, 1
Pringle, Sir John
Prokofiev, Sergei
Protogenes
Apelles, 1
Ptolemy I
Euclid, 1
Puccini, Giacomo
Britten, Benjamin, 2
Toscanini, Arturo, 3, 4
Pugh, Doc
Armstrong, Louis, 6
Pulitzer, Joseph
Purcell, Henry
Dennis, John, 2
Pushkin, Alexander
Putnam, Israel
Pyle, Ernest Taylor
Pyrrhus
Pythagoras
Quatrefages, Armand de
Virchow, Rudolf, 2
Quayle, Dan
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br /> Queensbury, William Douglas
Quennell, Peter
Fleming, Ian, 1
Quesnay, François
Quin, James
Quincy, Josiah
Livermore, Mary Ashton Rice, 1
Quintus Ennius
Scipio Nasica Serapio, Publius Cornelius, 1
Quisenberry, Dan
Rabelais, François
Rachel
Rachmaninoff, Sergei
Racine, Jean
Raft, George
Raglan, FitzRoy James Henry Somerset
Raikes, Alice
Carroll, Lewis, 2, 3
Rainier III
Raleigh, Sir Walter
Ramanujan, Srinivasa
Ramsey, Alice Huyler
Randolph, Jefferson
Jefferson, Thomas, 14
Randolph, John
Clay, Henry, 2
Ransom, Herbert
Adams, Franklin P., 1
Raper, Kenneth
Bonner, John, 1
Raphael
Picasso, Pablo, 20
Rather, Dan
Ravel, Maurice
Gershwin, George, 4
Ray, Maud
Thomson, Sir George Paget, 1
Raynal, Guillaume Thomas François
Reagan, Nancy
Reagan, Ronald
Bush, George, 1
Carter, Jimmy, 10
Eastwood, Clint, 3
Ford, Gerald, 3
Reagan, Nancy, 1, 2, 3, 4
Récamier, Mme. de
Staël, Anne Louise Germaine de, 4
Talleyrand-Périgord, Charles Maurice de, 4
Redford, Robert
Fiennes, Ralph, 1
Fonda, Jane, 2
Garvey, Steve, 1
Redgrave, Michael
Reed, Thomas Brackett
Roosevelt, Theodore, 4
Reger, Max
Rehan, Ada
Reinagle, Ramsay
Constable, John, 1
Reincken, J. A.
Bach, J. S., 1
Reinhardt, Max
Reinsdorf, Jerry
Steinbrenner, George, 3
Reisenhauer, Alfred
Remington, Frederick
Hearst, William Randolph, 1
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste
Shaw, George Bernard, 20
Reuther, Walter
Reynolds, Burt
Reynolds, Sir Joshua
Gainsborough, Thomas, 2
Siddons, Sarah, 2
Rhodes, Cecil John
Rice, Grantland
Ruth, “Babe,” 5
Richard I
Richards, I. A.
Eliot, T. S., 1
Roethke, Theodore, 2
Richardson, Jonathan
Caroline of Ansbach, 1
Richardson, Sir Ralph
Richelieu, Armand-Emmanuel du Plessis
Marie de Medicis, 1
Richter, Hans
Rickey, Branch
Riddell, Lord
Greenwood, Frederick, 1
Ridley, Nicholas
Latimer, Hugh, 1
Rigaud, Hyacinthe
Riley, James Whitcomb
Ritchie, Anne Thackeray
Butler, Samuel, 2
Rivarol, Antoine de
Rivera, Antonio
Rizzuto, Phil
Berra, Yogi, 12
Robards, Rachel Donelson
Jackson, Andrew, 1
Robbe-Grillet, Mme. Alain
Nabokov, Vladimir, 3
Robert, Léopold
Robert I
Roberts, Leon
Wills, Maury, 1
Robespierre
Mirabeau, Honore Gabriel Riqueti, 3
Robinson, Edward Arlington
Robinson, Edward G.
Goldwyn, Samuel, 3
Robinson, Jackie
Robinson, Sugar Ray
Louis, Joe, 2
Roche, Sir Boyle
Rochefort, Comtesse de
Nivernais, Louis Jules Mancini Mazarin, 1
Rochefort, Victor-Henri
Daudet, Alphonse, 1
Rochefoucauld-Liancourt, Duc de la
Louis XVI, 3
Rochester, Earl of
Barrow, Isaac, 1
Charles II, 8
Rockefeller, John D., Sr.
Rockefeller, John D., Jr.
Rockefeller, Nelson Aldrich
Rockne, Knute
Gipp, George, 1
Rodgers, Richard Charles
O’Hara, John, 4
Rodin, Auguste
Brancusi, Constantin, 1
Fallières, Armand, 1
Renoir, Pierre Auguste, 4
Rodzinski, Artur
Roe, Preacher
Musial, Stan, 1
Roethke, Theodore
Rogers, Ginger
Astaire, Fred, 3
Hayward, Leland, 1
Rogers, Samuel
Byron, George Gordon, 2
Rogers, Will
Coolidge, Calvin, 13
Rohan-Chabot, Chevalier de
Voltaire, 3
Roland, Jeanne Manon
Romanoff, Mike
Bogart, Humphrey, 1
Romney, George
Fuseli, Henry, 2
Roosevelt, Eleanor
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 5
Truman, Harry S., 3
Roosevelt, Franklin D.
Churchill, Winston, 18, 19
George VI, 2
Long, Huey P., 2
MacArthur, Douglas, 2
Mayer, Louis B., 1
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1, 2
Thomas, Norman, 1
Roosevelt, Theodore
Astor, Nancy, 5
Holmes, Fanny Dixwell, 1
Hoover, Herbert, 2
Jusserand, Jean Adrien A. J., 1, 2
Knox, Philander Chase, 1
Longworth, Alice Roosevelt, 1
Morgan, J. P., Sr., 8
Parker, Quannah, 1
Robinson, Edward Arlington, 2
Sargent, John Singer, 4
Taft, William Howard, 5
Roosevelt, Mrs. Theodore
Jusserand, Jean Adrien A. J., 3
Roosevelt, Theodore, Jr.
Root, Elihu
Roper, William
More, Thomas, 2
Rops, Félicien
Rorem, Ned
Bernstein, Leonard, 4
Stein, Gertrude, 11
Rose, Billy
Stravinsky, Igor, 4
Rose, Pete
Giamatti, A. Bartlett, 1
Rosenthal, Moriz
Pachmann, Vladimir de, 2
Paderewski, Ignace Jan, 2
Ross, Harold
Benchley, Robert, 1
Parker, Dorothy, 1
Thurber, James, 1, 2, 8
Ross, John
Smith, Sydney, 2
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel
Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio
Liszt, Franz, 1
Meyerbeer, Giacomo, 2
Roth, Philip
Susann, Jacqueline, 1
Rothschild, Alfred
Asquith, Herbert, 1
Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio, 8
Rothschild, Sir Nathan Meyer
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
Voltaire, 5
Routh, Martin
Rowland, Henry Augustus
Royall, Ann
Adams, John Quincy, 1
Royce, Josiah
James, William, 1
Rubinstein, Anton
Rubinstein, Artur
Heifetz, Jascha, 2
Laughton, Charles, 2
Rachmaninoff, Sergei, 1
Ruggles, Carl
Rulhières, Claude
Talleyrand-Périgord, Charles Maurice de, 5
Rush, Benjamin
Webster, Noah, 2
Ruskin, John
Russell, Bertrand
Eden, Anthony, 1
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bsp; Russell, John
Arnim, Harry von, 1
Ruth, George Herman “Babe”
Aaron, Henry, 2, 3
Caruso, Enrico, 2
Hoover, Herbert, 3
Jackson, Reggie, 1
Ryland, William
Blake, William, 2
Ryleyev, Kondraty
Nicholas I, 1
Rysanek, Leonie
Bing, Rudolf, 8
Ryskind, Morrie
Kaufman, George S., 7
Sage, Russell
Sainte-Beuve, Charles Augustin
Saint-Saëns, Camille
Bartók, Béla, 1
Salinger, J. D.
Salinger, Pierre
Kennedy, John Fitzgerald, 15
Salisbury, Countess of
Edward III, 1
Salisbury, Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil
Salk, Jonas, E.
Salmond, Felix
Hoffman, Josef Casimir, 1
Salomon, Johann Peter
George III, 4
Samuelson, Paul
Sandburg, Carl
Auden, W. H., 8
Sanders, George
Sandwich, John Montagu
Warburton, William, 1
Wilkes, John, 3
Santayana, George
Sarasate, Pablo de
Sargent, John Singer
Sargent, Sir Malcolm
Saroyan, William
Arlen, Michael, 2
Satie, Erik
Diaghilev, Sergei, 3
Satyrus
Demosthenes, 2
Scarron, Paul
Scheffel, Josef Victor von
Schiffer, Claudia
Schiller, Friedrich von
Hugo, Victor, 4
Schleiermacher, Friedrich Daniel Ernst
Schliemann, Heinrich
Schmidt, Mike
Schnabel, Artur
Horowitz, Vladimir, 1
Schnabel, Stefan
Schnabel, Artur, 2
Schödl, Max
Scholl, Aurélien
Schönbein, Christian Friedrich
Schönberg, Arnold
Schopenhauer, Arthur
Schumann-Heink, Ernestine
Schwab, Charles
Schwartz, Delmore
Schwartz, Gertrude
Schwartz, Delmore, 2
Schwartz, Maurice
Schwarzenberg, Felix
Schweitzer, Albert
Scipio Nasica Serapio, Publius Cornelius
Scott, Robert Falson
Oates, Lawrence Edward Grace, 1
Scott, Sir Walter
Scribner, Charles
Hemingway, Ernest, 3
Seagrave, Sterling
Luce, Henry B., 1
Sebastiano Del Piombo, Fra
Secombe, Harry
Sellers, Peter, 1
Sedgwick, Catharine Maria
Sedgwick, John
Sedgwick, Theodore
Sedley, Sir Charles
Seeley, Sir John Robert
Seferis, George
Segovia, Andrés
Seitz, John
Wilder, Billy, 1
Selig, Bud
Berra, Yogi, 17
Sellers, Peter
Selwyn, Edgar
Goldwyn, Samuel, 1
Selwyn, George Augustus
Bruce, James, 1
Selznick, David
Goldwyn, Samuel, 10
Seneca, Lucius Annaeus
Senz, Eddie “Papa”
Chaliapin, Feodor, 3
Servetus, Michael
Severinsen, Doc
Rose, Pete, 5
Severn, Joseph
Keats, John, 3
Sevitzky, Fabien
Rodzinski, Artur, 1
Seward, William Henry
Shackleton, Ernest
Lloyd George, David, 5