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by Clifton Fadiman

Adams, John, 1

  Andre, John, 1

  Franklin, Benjamin, 6

  Margaret, Princess, 1

  Waterton, Charles

  Watson, Richard

  Watt, Frank William

  Steinbeck, John, 5

  Watt, James

  Waugh, Evelyn

  Wavell, Archibald Percival

  Wayne, John

  Ford, John, 2, 3

  Weaver, Earl

  Webb, Clifton

  Coward, Noël, 8

  Webb, Sidney

  Webster, Daniel

  Adams, John Quincy, 2

  Clay, Henry, 7

  Jackson, Andrew, 4

  Webster, Noah

  Weems, Parson

  Washington, George, 1

  Weill, Kurt

  Lenya, Lotte, 1

  Weiss, Ottocaro

  Joyce, James, 8

  Weizmann, Chaim

  Welles, Orson

  Barrymore, John, 7

  Wellington, Arthur Wellesley

  Caroline of Brunswick, 3

  George IV, 2

  Isabey, Jean-Baptiste, 1

  Palmerston, Henry John Temple, 1

  Raglan, FitzRoy James Henry Somerset, 1

  Wilson, Harriette, 1

  Wells, H. G.

  Barrymore, John, 7

  Werfel, Alma Mahler

  Wesley, John

  West, Mae

  Westbury, Lord

  Lear, Edward, 4

  Westinghouse, George

  Westminster, Duke of

  Chanel, Coco, 3

  Wharton, Duke of

  Addison, Joseph, 2

  Wharton, Edith

  James, Henry, 3, 5

  Wheeler, Joseph

  Whewell, William

  Whistler, James Abbott McNeill

  Buller, Redvers Henry, 1

  Leighton, Frederic, 1

  Wilde, Oscar, 7, 8

  White, Stanford

  Mizner, Wilson, 5

  Nesbit, Evelyn, 1

  Whitefield, George

  Chesterfield, Philp Dormer Stanhope, 1

  Whitman, Walt

  Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 8

  Whitney, Stephen

  Whittier, John Greenleaf

  Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 5

  Whyte, L. L.

  Einstein, Albert, 7

  Widmark, Richard

  Reagan, Ronald, 7

  Widor, Charles-Marie

  Bartók, Béla, 1

  Wieniawski, Henri

  Wilberforce, Samuel

  Huxley, Thomas Henry, 1

  Wilbur, Richard

  Auden, W. H., 8

  Wild, Jonathan

  Wilde, Oscar

  Harris, Frank, 1

  Ouida, 1

  Pater, Walter, 1

  Ruskin, John, 1

  Whistler, James Abbott McNeill, 14

  Wilder, Billy

  Monroe, Marilyn, 1, 7, 8

  Wilding, Michael

  Wilhelm, Kaiser

  George V, 5

  Wilhelmina Helena Pauline Maria

  Wilkes, John

  Willes, Sir John

  William I (the Conqueror)

  William I

  William II

  Bulow, Hans Guido von, 1

  George V, 5

  Wilhelmina Helena Pauline Maria, 1

  William III

  Halifax, Charles Montague, 1

  William IV

  Dalton, John, 1

  Northcote, James, 1

  William of Gloucester

  Gibbon, Edward, 3

  Williams, Ted

  Williams, Tennessee

  Bankhead, Talullah, 10

  Williams, William Carlos

  Stein, Gertrude, 8

  Willis, Francis

  George III, 7

  Willis, Judge

  Smith, F. E., 7

  Wills, Maury

  Wilson, Charles Erwin

  Wilson, Edmund

  Waugh, Evelyn, 6

  Wilson, Sir Harold

  Wilson, Harriette

  Wilson, John

  Campbell, Thomas, 2

  Wilson, Richard

  Wilson, Woodrow

  Clemenceau, Georges, 8

  Taft, William Howard, 5

  Winchell, Walter

  Woollcott, Alexander, 3

  Winter, Ella

  Steinbeck, John, 1

  Winterfeldt, General von

  Frederick II, 7

  Winters, Shelley

  Wise, T. J.

  Gosse, Edmund, 1

  Wither, George

  Denham, John, 1

  Wittgenstein, Ludwig

  Wodehouse, Ethel

  Wodehouse, P. G., 1, 2

  Wodehouse, P. G.

  McCoy, Kid, 2

  Wojechzleschki, Stanislaus

  Nixon, Richard M., 8

  Wolf, Hugo

  Wolfe, James

  Wolfe, Thomas

  Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 2

  Wolsey, Cardinal

  Skelton, John, 1

  Woodhull, Victoria

  Vanderbilt, Cornelius, 3

  Woolf, Virginia

  Smyth, Dame Ethel, 1

  Woollcott, Alexander

  Adams, Franklin P., 4

  Bankhead, Talullah, 3

  Chesterton, G. K., 12

  Dietz, Howard, 1

  Kaufman, George S., 6

  Ross, Harold, 8

  Wordsworth, William

  Wren, Sir Christopher

  Wright, Frank Lloyd

  Wright, Orville and Wilbur

  Wright, Richard

  Wycherley, William

  Wyler, William

  Goldwyn, Samuel, 2, 15

  Wylie, Elinor

  Xanthippe

  Socrates, 2

  Xerxes

  Yastrzemski, Carl

  Gossage, “Goose,” 1

  Yeats, William Butler

  Campbell, Mrs. Patrick, 1

  Joyce, James, 2

  Moore, George Augustus, 2

  Young, Edward

  Swift, Jonathan, 6

  Young, Sir John

  Jonson, Ben, 2

  Yusupov, Feliks

  Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

  Zangwill, Israel

  Zeno

  Zeuxis

  Kneller, Sir Godfrey, 2

  Zhao Gao

  Shi Huangdi, 1

  Zhou Enlai

  Ziegfeld, Florenz

  Houdini, Harry, 2

  Zieterns, Captain

  Frederick II, 1

  Zimmerman, Arthur

  Gerard, James Watson, 1

  Zimmerman, Georg von

  Frederick II, 11

  Zoeller, “Fuzzy”

  Zog I

  Zukofsky, Louis

  Barnes, Djuna, 2

  INDEX OF SUBJECTS

  ability

  Mantle, 3, 5

  Rose, 2

  abolitionists

  Anthony, S. B., 1

  Garrison, 1

  Phillips, 1–2

  absentmindedness. See also forgetfulness

  Bowles, W. L., 1–2

  Brodie, B. C., 1

  Cecil, 1

  Chesterton, 9–11

  Dudley, 1

  Edman, 1–2

  Hilbert, 1–2

  Hofmann, 3

  James, W., 3

  Lawson, 1

  Lessing, 1

  Newton, 8

  Schödl, 1

  Smith, A., 1

  Tennyson, 2

  Thales, 3

  Toscanini, 6

  Trollope, A., 1

  academics. See also scholars

  Agassiz, 1

  Atkinson, 1

  Auden, 3

  Bradley, 1

  Cohen, 1

  Edman, 1

  Oppenheimer, 1

  Phelps, 1

  Trilling, 1

  Academy Awards

  Bogdanovich, 1

  DiCaprio, 1

  Fonda, J.,
1

  Newman, 1

  Travolta, 2

  Acapulco

  Onassis, J., 2

  accents, foreign

  Chesterton, 1

  Curtiz, 1

  Heyerdahl, 1

  Kissinger, 3

  Thackeray, 2

  accidents

  Adams, F. P., 2

  Aeschylus, 1

  Edward VII, 9

  Faulkner, 6

  Jackson, S., 1

  Lewis, C. S., 5

  Lillie, 1, 4

  Lindemann, 1

  Mahaffy, 1

  Mitchell, 2

  Nagurski, 3

  Nixon, 7

  Reagan, N., 4

  Richardson, 1

  Routh, 2

  Smith, B., 1

  Thales, 3

  Twain, 3

  accomplishment

  Armstrong, N., 1

  accountants

  O’Neal, 1

  accusations

  Greeley, 8

  Jeffreys, 1

  achievements

  Onassis, J., 10

  acquaintances

  James, H., 4

  acrobats

  Heifetz, 1

  acronyms

  Verdi, 1

  acting

  Barrie, 10

  Barrymore, J., 2–5, 8

  Hitchcock, 2

  Monroe, 3

  Olivier, 3

  Reynolds, B., 2

  Wayne, 1

  action

  Lucas, 4

  activism

  Cornett, 1

  actors and actresses. See also movies; rehearsals; theater

  Astaire, 1, 3

  Bankhead, 9

  Barrymore, M., 1

  Bogdanovich, 1

  Bernhardt, 2, 4, 6, 10–11

  Booth, J. B., 1, 3–4

  Braithwaite, 1

  Burton, R., 1

  Calhern, 1

  Campbell, Mrs. P., 2

  Capus, 1

  Chaplin, 1

  Cibber, 1

  Cohan, 1

  Cooper, D., 1

  Cooper, Gary, 2

  Coward, 1, 3, 6

  Cowl, 1

  Crawford, 1

  Cukor, 1

  Davies, M., 1

  Denis, 1

  Elizabeth the Queen Mother, 4

  Evans, E., 1–2

  Faulkner, 4

  Fiske, 1–2

  Fonda, H., 1

  Foote, 1

  Ford, J., 3

  Garbo, 1–2

  Garrick, 1–2

  Gielgud, 1, 4

  Gilbert, J., 1

  Gilbert, W. S., 4–5, 8

  Goldwyn, 3, 10

  Graziano, 1

  Gwenn, 1

  Hayes, H., 1

  Hitchcock, 2, 7

  Howard, L., 1

  Kaufman, 1, 11

  Kemble, J. P., 1–2

  Kern, 1

  Klöpfer, 1

  Korda, 1

  Ladd, 1

  Lawson, 1

  Lincoln, A., 36

  Lunt, 1–2

  Macready, 2

  Matthews, 1–2

  Mature, 1, 3

  Merman, 1

  Molière, 1

  Monroe, 1

  Morley, R., 1

  Morris, C., 1

  Nabokov, 3

  Nicholson, 1

  Olivier, 1–2

  O’Neal, 1

  O’Toole, 1–2

  Parker, D., 8

  Rachel, 3, 5

  Racine, 1

  Rehan, 1

  Schwartz, M., 1

  Sellers, 3

  Shakespeare, 2

  Siddons, 1, 3–4

  Skinner, C. O., 1

  Skinner, O., 1

  Taylor, L., 1

  Terry, 1–2

  Thorndike, 3

  Tracy, 1–3

  Tree, 1, 2–4

  Unzelmann, 1

  Ustinov, 2

  Wilding, 1

  Adam

  Smith, S., 6

  adaptability

  Crawford, 2

  Williams, Ted, 2

  admiration

  Churchill, W., 15

  Modigliani, 1

  admirers

  Alcott, L. M., 1

  Allen, F., 3

  Allen, W., 1

  Anders, 1

  Auden, 8

  Bartók, 1

  Bennett, A., 5

  Cabell, 1

  Carroll, J., 1

  Chaplin, 5

  Galli-Curci, 1

  Gray, 1

  Hemingway, 9

  Holmes, O. W., Sr., 5

  Jackson, T. J., 5

  Joyce, James, 7

  Klein, 1

  Koussevitzky, 1

  Lind, 1

  McCullers, 2

  Paderewski, 5

  Roosevelt, E., 4

  Schmidt, 3

  Shaw, 19

  Stengel, 5

  Stravinsky, 8

  Talmadge, 1

  adolescents

  Blume, 1

  advancement

  Ambrose, 1

  adversity

  Mauch, 1

  advertising

  Carson, 3

  Goldwyn, 19

  Lippert, 1

  Martinelli, 1

  Pulitzer, 1

  Rogers, W., 3

  advice

  Butler, S., 3

  Clark, M. W., 1

  Curie, 1

  Davis, M., 2

  Eliot, T. S., 4

  Emerson, 4

  Fiske, 2

  Foote, 6

  Gaisford, 1

  Hartleben, 1

  Held, 1

  Hitchcock, 2

  Horowitz, 1

  Huxley, A., 3

  Kazan, 1

  Landers, 1

  Maugham, 5

  Onassis, J., 7

  Paige, 1

  Root, 1

  Spellman, 1

  Stein, 8

  Swedenborg, 1

  Tracy, 3

  Truman, 7

  Wright, F. L., 1

  affectations. See also snobbery

  Jowett, 1

  Lenclos, 2

  Kern, 1

  afterlife

  Franklin, 15

  Navratilova, 2

  Thomas, D., 2

  Thoreau, 1

  age

  Adams, J., 3

  Anthony, S. B., 3

  Grant, C., 1

  Hepburn, 3

  Mantle, 3

  Reagan, R., 5, 14, 23

  Shaw, 12

  Sitwell, E., 1

  agents

  Dreiser, 2

  Hayward, 1

  aging. See also old age

  Auber, 2

  Churchill, W., 5

  Maugham, 2

  Niven, 2

  Picasso, 2

  Shaw, 20

  Stengel, 8

  Swift, 6

  Williams, Ted, 3

  Yeats, 2

  agnostics

  Brooks, 1

  Darrow, 3

  Fields, 5

  agreements

  Webb, 1

  airplanes. See also flying

  Corrigan, 1

  Metaxas, 1

  Philip, Prince, 4

  alibis

  Auerbach, 1

  Alice in Wonderland

  Carroll, 3

  aliveness

  Holmes, O. W., Sr., 3

  alliances, national

  Pétain, 2

  Philip V, 1

  Talleyrand, 8

  ambiguity

  Croesus, 1

  Darius I, 1

  Sheridan, R. B., 10

  ambition

  Agrippina, 1

  Beaton, 1

  Beckett, 1

  Bernstein, L., 1

  Caesar, 6

  Churchill, W., 6

  Empedocles, 1

  George III, 3

  Henry VIII, 1

  John XXIII, 5

  Kennedy, J. P., 3

 
; Madonna, 1

  Montgomery, B. L., 2

  Picasso, 1

  Renoir, 2

  Rhodes, 3

  Richard I, 2

  Schiffer, 1

  America

  Talleyrand, 3

  Wilde, 3

  Americans

  Acheson, 2

  Gorki, 1

  Waugh, 6

  amputation

  Raglan, 1

  amusement parks

  Gorki, 1

  Hawthorne, Nigel, 1

  anagrams

  Davies, E., 1

  ancestors

  Astor, N., 5

  Gladstone, 2

  Liliencron, 1

  ancestry

  Dumas père, 2

  Gardner, I. S., 2

  Iphicrates, 1

  Margaret, 1

  Smith, S., 5

  anecdotes

  Harris, 1

  Scott, 3

  anger

  Hammerstein, 3

  Hunter, 1

  Lincoln, A., 27

  animals. See also cats; dogs; pets

  Goering, 2

  Grey, 2

  MacNeil, 1

  Ustinov, 1

  anonymity

  Newton, 7

  answers

  Gibson, 1

  Moore, M., 1

  Reagan, R., 17

  Rickey, 1

  anthologies

  Shaw, 12

  anticlericalism

  Greeley, 3

  antiques

  Mizner, W., 6

  anti-Semitism. See also Jews

  Alexander I, 3

  Chwolson, 1

  Disraeli, 1

  Hobson, L. Z., 1

  Kaufman, 6

  Marx, G., 3

  Montefiore, 1

  Woollcott, 5

  anxiety

  McGraw, 2

  apologies

  Auden, 5

  Barrie, 1

  Beaverbrook, 1

  Blackwell, 1

  Chesterton, 9

  Choate, 4

  Hope, 1

  Jefferson, T., 10

  Sheridan, R. B., 10

  Skelton, 1

  Toscanini, 1

  Voltaire, 1

  apothecaries

  Macready, 1

  appeals

  Philip II, 1

  appearance

  Aquinas, 1

  Bankhead, 2

  Braque, 1

  Broun, 2

  Caligula, 4

  Campbell, Mrs. P., 6

  Charlotte, 1

  Chesterton, 2

  Crockett, 2

  Darrow, 1

  Eden, A., 1

  Elizabeth the Queen Mother, 6

  Gilbert, W. S., 9

  James, H., 1

  John XXIII, 3

  Kelly, G., 1

  Laïs, 1

  Lardner, 1

  Lincoln, A., 17, 30

  Longworth, 2

  Rigaud, 1

  Roosevelt, E., 2

  Roosevelt, F. D., 4

  Ross, 7

  Shaw, 1, 6

  Twain, 19

  William III, 1

  appendixes

  Virchow, 3

  appetite

  Napoleon I, 13

  applause

  DiMaggio, 1

  Reagan, N., 4

  apples

  John XXIII, 1

  Arabic language

  Nasser, 1

  archaeologists

  Christie, 1

  Evans, A., 1

  Schliemann, 1

  architects/architecture

  Franklin, 13

  Mies van der Rohe, 1

  Mizner, A., 1

  Mizner, W., 5

  Urban VIII, 1

  Wren, 1

  Wright, F. L., 1–2

  arguments

  Bing, 4

  Brummell, 3

  Geoffrin, 1

  Goldwyn, 2, 17–18

  Hammett, 3

  Johnson, N., 2

  Lincoln, A., 11

  Martin, 1

  Mazarin, 1

  Modigliani, 1

  Peter I, 2

 

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