nuclear war. See atomic weapons
nudity
Adams, J. Q., 1
Bankhead, 11
Behan, 1
Blake, W., 1
Borghese, 1
Bowra, 1
Castiglione, 1
Churchill, W., 18
Eugénie, 2
Godiva, 1
Grable, 1
Howarth, 1
Jusserand, 1
Kaufman, 5
Lamb, Caroline, 1
Marx, G., 11
Moore, G. A., 3
Poe, 1
Robert, L., 1
Scheffel, 1
Whistler, 6
numbers
Ramanujan, 1
nuns
Behan, 4
Teresa, 1
nursery rhymes
Parker, D., 10
oaths
Louis XVIII, 1
obedience
Gibbon, 1
Grant, U. S., 2
obesity
Chesterton, 4, 6–8, 15
Dietz, 1
Guines, 1
Kemble, S., 1
Paine, 3
Schumann-Heink, 3
Taft, W. H., 2–3, 6
Tetrazzini, 1
obfuscation
Adee, 1
obituaries
Barnum, 4
Kipling, 1
Russell, B., 4
Twain, 13
obliviousness
Coleridge, 3
Mingus, 1
obscenity
Ross, 8
Twain, 9
obscurity
Browning, R., 1
Jerrold, 1
observation
Berra, 11, 14
Colette, 1
odds
Steinbrenner, 1
Oedipus complex
Beerbohm, 2
offices
Parker, D., 2
old age. See also longevity
Adams, J. Q., 2
Adenauer, 3
Auber, 3
Aumale, 5
Barrymore, E., 1
Bernhardt, 12
Cato, 2
Chesterfield, 3–4
Chevalier, 2
Churchill, W., 35–36
de Gaulle, 12
Dumas père, 7
Emerson, 9
Fontenelle, 2, 4–5
Holmes, O. W., Jr., 5, 7
Hyde, C., 1
Julia, 3
Maugham, 6
Michelangelo, 7
Mises, 1
Reagan, R., 21
Rops, 1
Shaw, 23
Stengel, 9–11
Wells, 1
Olympics
Nurmi, 1
omens
Augustus, 1
Gregory I, 2
one-upmanship
Aumale, 2
opera. See also music; singers
Arditi, 1
Britten, 2
Edward VII, 7
Henze, 1
Nilsson, 1, 4
Puccini, 1
Tamagno, 1
Tetrazzini, 1
Toscanini, 4
Ustinov, 1
opinions
Strachey, 5
opportunism
Richelieu, 3
oppression
Confucius, 1
Euler, 1
optics
Newton, 4
orators, oratory. See speakers; speeches
orchards
Emerson, 1
orphanages
Ford, H., 4
outspokenness
Astor, N., 3
oysters
Dali, 7
Thackeray, 1
Oz
Baum, 2
pacifism
Debs, 1
Ford, H., 1
Fox, G., 1
Lowell, R., 1
Rivera, 1
pageants
Schiffer, 1
pain
Napoleon III, 2
painters. See artists, visual
paintings
Beaton, 2
Churchill, W., 32, 34
Corot, 2–3
Eakins, 1
Elizabeth II, 11
Gesvres, 1
Giorgione, 1
Havemeyer, 1
Isabey, 1
Lévis, 1
Picasso, 17
Stein, 11
Panama Canal
Charles V, 2
Knox, P. C., 1
parades
Liebling, 1
Roosevelt, E., 3
paranoia
Hugo, 4
Martin, 2
pardons
Debs, 1
Kidd, 1
Maria Fëdorovna, 1
Skelton, 1
parents. See also children; fathers; mothers
Alembert, 1
Bernstein, L., 1
Clemenceau, 6
de Gaulle, 4
Diogenes, 5
Edward VIII, 3
George V, 4
Gibbon, 1
Patton, 3
Twain, 7
Paris
Duke, 1
parodies
Greene, 1
Partridge, 1
parties
Astor, M., 1
Auden, 6
Beerbohm, 3
Brummell, 4
Chigi, 1
Edison, T. A., 7
Fitzgerald, F. S., 3
Hitchcock, 3
McCormick, 1
Shaw, 15
partners. See collaboration
passion
Campbell, Mrs. P., 5
Strachey, 4
paternity. See also illegitimacy
Alexander III, 1
Burr, 1
Feydeau, 1
Julia, 1
patience
Churchill, W., 19
patients
Garth, 1
Otto, 1
patriotism
Aumale, 3–4
Baldwin, 1
Cavell, 1
Christian X, 1
Francis II, 2
Hale, 1
Palmerston, 3
Pitt, 4
Russell, J., 1
Toscanini, 8
Washington, 8
patronage
Dante, 1
Robinson, E. A., 2
Thurlow, 2–3
patrons
Boileau, 1
Raleigh, 6
Spenser, 2
peace agreements/treaties
Alexander III, 6
Foch, 3
Grant, U. S., 3
Kallio, 1
Napoleon III, 3
pearls
Nilsson, 2
Vanderbilt, A., 1
peasants
Talleyrand, 9
Tennyson, 6
pedestrians
George V, 7
penicillin
Ali, 6
pep talks
Kerr, J., 1
percentages
Dreiser, 2
perfectionism
Cézanne, 1
Klemperer, 1
perfume
Arnim, 1
Monroe, 5
persistence
Fraguier, 1
Robert I, 1
perspiration
Dreyschock, 1
Palmerston, 1
pessimism
Keynes, 2
Lloyd George, 2
Pétain, 2
Reagan, R., 2
pestering
Orsay, 2
pets
Campbell, Mrs. P., 4
Coolidge, 11
Curran, 2
Dali, 6
D’Annunzio, 1
Green, H., 2
Kneller, 2
Mathilde, 1
Nerval, 1
Newton, 2
Nixon, 1
Pythagoras, 1
W
ellington, 16
philanthropists
Carnegie, 1
Morgan, J. P., Sr., 7
philanthropy
Brandt, 1
philosophers
Aristippus, 1, 3
Descartes, 1
Diogenes, 1, 4
Emerson, 6
Fuller, M., 1
Hegel, 1
Hume, 2
James, W., 1
Plato, 1
Russell, B., 5
Satayana, 1
Schopenhauer, 1
Socrates, 1–2
Teng Shih, 1
Thales, 3–5
Voltaire, 6
Zeno, 1
philosophy
Cohen, 1
Johnson, S., 17
McGraw, 2
photographers/photography
Anders, 1
Capa, 1
Elizabeth the Queen Mother, 6
Kennedy, J. F., 13
Kennedy, R., 2
Shaw, 21
photographs
Casals, 4
Hillary, 1
John XXIII, 3
Khrushchev, 2
Monroe, 4
Stevenson, A. E., 3
Vidal, 1
physicists
Oppenheimer, 1
physics
Anders, 2
Einstein, 3, 15
Feynman, 2
pianos
Liszt, 3
Paderewski, 3
piety
Dante, 2
pilots
Corrigan, 1
Metaxas, 1
pinching
Trench, 1
pioneers
Clay, H., 3
pirates
Caesar, 2
Kidd, 1
plagiarism
Andersen, 1
Bacon, 2
Bülow, 3
Harris, 1
Hazlitt, 2
Kelly, M., 1
Liszt, 2
Michelangelo, 5
Plath, 1
Russell, B., 4
Twain, 15
Wilde, 7–8
plain speaking
Pringle, 1
plants
Schopenhauer, 1
playwrights. See also writers
Allais, 2
Andersen, 1
Archer, 1
Barnes, 3
Beaumont, 1
Congreve, 1
Dumas père, 6
Feydeau, 4
Harlow, 1
Kaufman, 1, 7
Klein, 1
Lamb, Charles, 4
O’Neill, 1–2
Racine, 1
Shakespeare, 1
Shaw, 1, 3–4, 16
Sheridan, R. B., 11
Skinner, C. O., 1
Stoppard, 1
Terry, 2
pleading
Aristippus, 2
poetry
Boileau, 2
Browning, E. B., 2
Browning, R., 1
Jerrold, 1
Johnson, S., 19
O’Hara, F., 1
Pinter, 1
Porson, 4
Sitwell, G., 2
Tennyson, 3
poets. See also writers
Acton, 1
Auden, 2, 7
Austin, A., 1
Babbage, 1
Bahr, 1
Denham, 1
Dryden, 1, 3
Eliot, T. S., 1, 3–4
Euripides, 1
Frost, 1, 3
Hughes, 1
Keats, 1
Levant, 3
Li Bo, 1
Lowell, A., 2
Milton, 1, 3
O’Neill, 4
Pope, Alexander, 3
Robinson, E. A., 1–2
Roethke, 2
Rossetti, 2
Salisbury, 1
Spenser, 1
Swinburne, 1
Voltaire, 5, 7
Waller, 1
Whitman, 1
Wilde, 9
poison/poisoning
Alexander III, 5
Baker, J., 2
Christie, 2
Crenshaw, 2
Nero, 1
police
Arnould, 2
Harriman, 2
La Guardia, 4
Nixon, 7
politicial parties
Humphrey, 4
Johnson, L. B., 10
Luce, C. B., 3
Packer, 1
Reagan, R., 12
politicians. See also diplomats; presidents; statesmen
Acheson, 1–2
Astor, N., 1–3, 6
Bryan, 2
Buchanan, 1
Burke, 3
Canning, 1
Chamberlain, A., 1
Churchill, W., 6, 26
Cicero, 1–2
Clay, H., 2, 5, 7
Coolidge, 3–4
de Valera, 2
Disraeli, 2–3
Fouché, 1
Franklin, 4
Garrick, 2
Hadrian, 1
Harrison, B. (President), 1
Holles, 1
Holmes, F. D., 1
Hoover, 2
Hruska, 1
Johnson, L. B., 2
Kennedy, J. F., 3, 13
Ledru-Rollin, 1
Long, 1–2
Longworth, 2
Louis XIV, 6
MacArthur, D., 3
Macaulay, 4
Mirabeau, 2
Muggeridge, 1
Newton, 5
Nixon, 1, 4
North, 2
Paderewski, 5
Pitt, 2
Reagan, R., 9, 13
Reed, 2
Roche, 2
Seward, 1
Stevens, 2
Stevenson, A. E., 2, 5, 7
Thomas, N., 1
Thoreau, 3
Townshend, 1
Truman, 8, 12
Wilson, W., 2
politics
Bülow, 1
Cicero, 1
Eastwood, 3
Eisenhower, 4
Humphrey, 4
Reagan, N., 3
Reagan, R., 3
Roosevelt, F. D., 3
Thomas, N., 2–3
Wilson, Harold, 2
polls
Gallup, 1
pollution
Whewell, 1
polo
Alfonso XIII, 1
polygamy
Parker, Q., 1
pomposity
Berners, 2
Edward VII, 8
Jackson, T. J., 7
Labouchere, 1
Lincoln, A., 33
Louis XIV, 9
Reed, 1
Wordsworth, 1
popes
John XXIII, 4
Leo X, 1
popularity
Armstrong, L., 5
Beethoven, 2
Bush, B., 1
Chaplin, 1
Dickens, 2
Ford, G. R., 4
Kennedy, E., 1
Kennedy, J. F., 16–17, 19
Mayer, 6
Onassis, J., 5–6
Reagan, R., 15
pornographers
Harris, 2
portraits
Blake, W., 3
Buddha, 1
Cézanne, 1
Churchill, W., 34
Cromwell, 1
Elizabeth the Queen Mother, 6
Gainsborough, 1
Gladstone, 2
Henry VIII, 2
Hogarth, 1
Holmes, O. W., Jr., 4
Isabey, 1
John, A., 1
Joyce, James, 4
Joyce, John, 2
Kneller, 2
Koppay, 1
Liebermann, 1
Michelangelo, 2
Molnár, 3
Picasso, 2–3, 18
Plotinus, 1
Prokofiev, 1
Rigaud, 1
Sargent, J. S., 2–4
Shaw, 20–21
Siddons, 2
Thackeray, 3
Tintoretto, 1
Titian, 1
Washington, 9
Whistler, 6
postal service
Faulkner, 1
postscripts
Selwyn, 6
potatoes
Liliencron, 1
poverty
Alcott, A. B., 1
Bach, J. S., 1
Balzac, 2, 5
Caligula, 3
Gibbons, 1
Rochefort, 2
Shuter, 1
power
Chesterton, 12
Strug, 1
Themistocles, 2
practical jokes
Barrie, 6
Benchley, 3
Bogart, 1
Buckland, 2
Cuvier, 1
Eugénie, 1
Franklin, 8
Gide, 1
Giotto, 2
Greeley, 6
Greene, 1
Halifax, E., 1
Hill, J., 1
Hitchcock, 7
Hook, 1
Huston, 1
Ikku, 1
Jones, J., 4
Marx, G., 11
Partridge, 1
Piccard, 1
Porson, 1
Ross, 5–6
Smith, S., 1
Troy, 1
practicality
Cocteau, 1
Cromwell, 3
Edison, T. A., 5
Graves, 1
practice
Paderewski, 1
praise
Constable, 1–2
Emerson, 8
Klemperer, 1
Lewis, M. G., 1
Olivier, 1
Rogers, S., 4
Sarasate, 2
Sitwell, E., 2
Turner, 5
Voltaire, 10
prayer
Aubigné, 1
Baylis, 2
Bion, 1
Cinque, 1
Johnson, L. B., 7
Lincoln, A., 18
Spellman, 2
preaching
Coleridge, 7
Lamb, Charles, 6
predestination. See fate
predictability
Haldane, 2
predictions
Aidan, 1
Blake, W., 2
Gallup, 1
Onassis, J., 4
Partridge, 1–2
Peale, 1
Stengel, 4
Thurber, 9
preference
Kennedy, J. P., 5
Onassis, J., 6
pregnancy
Arnould, 4
Aubernon, 3
Coke, 1
Collins, J., 1
Kennedy, J. F., 9
Marie Antoinette, 2
prejudice
Belloc, 1
Eastwood, 2
Jessel, 1
Thackeray, 2
Thomas, M. C., 1
premonitions
Lincoln, A., 35
preparations
Nixon, 2
Taft, W. H., 7
prescriptions
Brahms, 8
Lamb, Charles, 3
Macready, 1
Presidency, the
Coolidge, 12, 20
George V, 2
presidents. See also elections; politicians
Adams, J., 2
Buchanan, 2
Carter, 7
Cleveland, G., 1
Coolidge, 17
Dole, 1, 4
Eisenhower, 4
Fillmore, 1
Garfield, 1
Goldwater, 2
Hoover, 4
Jefferson, T., 10
Kennedy, E., 1
Kennedy, J. F., 4, 10, 18
Lincoln, A., 12, 31
Longworth, 1
Lowell, Abbott Lawrence, 1
McKinley, 1
Nixon, 3–4, 10
Onassis, J., 3
Reagan, N., 2
Reagan, R., 13
Reed, 2
Roosevelt, F. D., 1, 6
Ruth, 1
Seward, 1
Stevenson, A. E., 9
Taft, W. H., 5
Thomas, N., 1
Truman, 3, 7, 9
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