surrender
Allen, E., 2
Antheil, 1
Cambronne, 1
Grant, U. S., 3
Montcalm, 1
Pétain, 2
suspense
Hitchcock, 4
swearing
Elizabeth II, 9
Greeley, 3
Nixon, 5
Truman, 5
Twain, 4
Swedenborgians
Paine, 2
swimming
Shelley, P. B., 2
Taft, W. H., 3
symbols, phallic
Freud, 2
symbols, power
Cromwell, 2
symbols, religious
Francis of Assisi, 1
sympathy
Elizabeth II, 2
James, W., 2
Roosevelt, E., 1
taciturnity
Abernethy, 6
Coolidge, 2, 4, 6–7, 10, 18
Dirichlet, 1
Meurisse, 1
tact
Boileau, 2
Corot, 1
Disraeli, 5–6
Einstein, 7
George IV, 2
Isabey, 1
Marquand, 1
Mastroianni, 1
Perón, 1
Sitwell, E., 1
Sitwell, G., 2
Tree, 5
talent
Bernstein, H., 1
Boulanger, N., 1
Garbo, 3
Gershwin, G., 3
Plath, 1
Stengel, 8
talkativeness
Archelaus, 1
Babbage, 2
Bankhead, 4
Bossuet, 1
Chesterton, 3
Clay, H., 1
Coleridge, 3, 7
Einstein, 1
Humphrey, 1–2
James, H., 3
Lamb, Charles, 6
Macaulay, 2
Maury, 1
Mingus, 1
Raynal, 1
Roosevelt, T., 6
Stengel, 2, 7
Swift, 2
tanks
Churchill, W., 5
tantrums
Nilsson, 1
taste
Einstein, 21
Howells, 1
tattoos
Bernadotte, 1
tax collectors
Voltaire, 13
taxes
Victor Amadeus II, 1
Baldwin, 1
Capone, 1
Devonshire, 2
Faraday, 1
Godiva, 1
Helmsley, 1
Kemble, C., 1
Louis XIV, 6
Napoleon III, 1
Rogers, W., 4
Ross, 6
Swift, 5
Vespasian, 2
taxidermists
Clinton, 3
taxis
Burnett, 1
Cobb, 2
Heyerdahl, 1
Huxley, T. H., 2
tea
Asquith, H., 1
Auden, 6
teachers
Aquinas, 1
Barr, 1
Boulanger, N., 1
Busby, 1
James, W., 2
Leschetizky, 1
Michelet, 1
Pater, 1
Piatigorsky, 1
Rossini, 5
Santayana, 2
Schnabel, 1
Smith, F. E., 1
Untermeyer, 2
teaching
Heifetz, 4
Steinbeck, 3
teams
Lasorda, 1
technology
Ruskin, 3
teeth
Cope, 1
Hudson, 1
teetotalers. See also drinking; drunkenness
Bryan, 1
Cook, 1
Croll, 1
Hayes, R. B., 1
Whistler, 7
telegrams
Morse, 1
Thomson, G., 1
Victoria, 16
Waugh, 2
telephones
Degas, 1
Levant, 2
Parker, D., 11
telescopes
George III, 1
television
Lippert, 1
MacNeil, 1
Nixon, 2, 5
Rose, 5
Silverman, 1
temper
Beethoven, 5
Bolt, 2
Campbell, Mrs. P., 1
Landor, 1
Macmillan, 1
temperament
Anne, Princess, 2
Churchill, R. F. E. S., 2
Dole, 3
Grafton, 1
Roosevelt, E., 2
Williams, Ted, 1
temperance. See teetotalers
Ten Commandments
Cerf, 1
Twain, 5
tennis
Navratilova, 1
territories
Sherman, W. H., 1
Texas
Sheridan, P. H., 2
tennis
Budge, 1
Carillo, 1
Kiner, 1
thanks
Cagney, 2
theater. See also actors and actresses; rehearsals
Alexander, George, 1
Allais, 2
Barrie, 5
Baylis, 2
Bing, 6
Brady, 1
Churchill, W., 23
Cohan, 1
Coward, 6
Daudet, 1
Dennis, 1
Elizabeth the Queen Mother, 4
Gilbert, W. S., 8
Kaufman, 3–4
Kemble, J. P., 1
Klöpfer, 1
O’Neill, 2
Parker, D., 8
Rehan, 1
Reinhardt, 1
Rodgers, 2
Shaw, 4
Terry, 1–2
Ustinov, 1
Wilde, 6
theaters
Bancroft, 1
theatrical producers and directors
Cohan, 1
Hawtrey, 1
Tree, 1, 4
theft/thieves
Bing, 5
Brown, G., 1–2
Cane, 1
Churchill, W., 27
Duval, 1
Freud, 3
themes
Guthrie, 2
threats
Armstrong, L., 1
Columbus, 3
Grey, 2
Handel, 3
Inge, 1
Johnson, A., 1
Keppel, 1
Marx, G., 9
Philip II, 2
Rogers, W., 2
thunder
Dennis, 1
tigers
Confucius, 1
timing
Carlton, 2
Monet, 1
Shaw, 4
tipping
Keynes, 1
Levant, 4
Rothschild, 1
tips
Alvanley, 1
Bennett, J. G., 3
Butler, S., 1
titles, book
Greene, 2
Hawthorne, Nigel, 1
Howe, I., 1
O’Hara, J., 4
Salinger, 1
titles, royal
Alençon, 1
torture
Peter I, 1
toupees. See wigs
tourists/tours
Benchley, 1
Cook, 1
Coolidge, 6–7, 24
Kemble, F., 1
traditions
Kennedy, J. P., 5
Stalin, 3
traffic
Thomson, J., 1
Victoria, 13
tragedy
Stalin, 2
trains
Churchill, W., 4
Roosevelt, T., Jr., 1
Welles, 1
traitors
Andre, 1
Fouché, 2
Zhou E
nlai, 1
transformations
Ali, 6
translations
Aubigné, 1
Eliot, J., 1
Este, 1
Pope, Alexander, 1–2
Thurber, 6
trapezes
Moore, M., 1
travel
Alexander, S., 1
Anders, 2
Armstrong, N., 2
Columbus, 1
Cooper, Gary, 2
Herman, 1
Mozart, 7
Thoreau, 6
treason
Beaumont, 1
Gerard, 1
Harrison, B. (“Signer”), 1
treaties
Kallio, 1
trials
Barrows, 1
Burke, 4
Caroline of Brunswick, 2
Darrow, 3
James I, 1
Julian, 1
Landru, 1
Mansfield, 1
Philip II, 1
tributes. See also awards; honors
Carroll, 3
Cushman, 1
Gehrig, 1
Rossetti, 2
Rossini, 7
Toscanini, 4
tricks
Cole, 1
Edison, T. A., 2
Gilbert, W. S., 2
Johnson, L. B., 5
Korda, 4
Pope, Alexander, 1
Putnam, 1
Queensberry, 2
Rubinstein, Anton, 2
Scott, 1
Talleyrand, 1
Thales, 4
trivia
Ford, H., 3
trust
Alexander III, 5
Fagiuoli, 1
Kaufman, 14
Perugino, 1
truth
Newton, 10
Washington, 1
turning points
Mantle, 1
tuxedos
Goldwater, 1
twins
Piccard, 1
typographical errors
Parker, D., 16
tyrants
Asoka, 1
Seneca, 1
ugliness
Churchill, W., 30
Conti, 1
Giotto, 3
Heidegger, 1
Hogarth, 1
North, 1
underdogs
Ali, 5
Chamberlain, W., 1
understatement
Ruth, 2
undertakers
Arne, 1
underwear
Montagu, 1
unions
Cohan, 2
Welles, 2
United Nations
Austin, W., 2
universities. See academics; scholars; students
unpopularity
Kennedy, E., 2
Van Buren, 1
upstaging
Bush, G., 1
Cowl, 1
Kennedy, E., 1
Kennedy, J. F., 19
Monroe, 6
urination
Churchill, W., 29
urns
Lewis, S., 4
vacations
Brandeis, 1
Faulkner, 6
Lloyd George, 3
Rose, 1
valedictorians
Webster, D., 4
value
Picasso, 3, 7–8
vanity. See conceit; selfimportance
Vaseline
Sutton, 2
vegetarians
Barrie, 8
Murray, Gilbert, 1
Schweitzer, 2
Shaw, 6
Singer, 1
Stravinsky, 11
vengeance
Gould, 2
Venice
Benchley, 1
venues
Onassis, J., 2
verbosity. See talkativeness
versatility
Garbo, 3
veterinarians
Bismarck, 8
Clinton, 3
Otto, 1
vice presidency, the
Humphrey, 3
Johnson, L. B., 9
Marshall, T. R., 2
Rockefeller, N. A., 1
vice presidents
Adams, J., 2
Clay, H., 5
Jefferson, T., 6
Marshall, T. R., 2
Roosevelt, T., 2
vices
Napoleon III, 1
Richard I, 2
victory
Forrest, 1
Fraguier, 1
Henry IV, 1
Ibrahim, 1
John III Sobieski, 1
Kiner, 1
Napoleon I, 9
Pyrrhus, 1
Victoria, 16
Wellington, 8
villains
Lytton, 1
virtues
Joyce, James, 1
West, 1
vision
Monet, 2
visions
Blake, W., 3
Constantine, 1
Swedenborg, 1
voters/votes
Fox, C. J., 5–6
Jowett, 2
Kennedy, J. F., 17
Reagan, R., 7
Stevenson, A. E., 2
voyeurs
Godiva, 1
wagers. See bets
wages. See salaries
waiting
Einstein, 4
Thalberg, 1
Wales
Johnson, S., 9
wallpaper
Truman, 2
war/warfare. See also battles; military leaders; military strategy; soldiers
Bosquet, 1
Capa, 1
Cunard, 1
Drake, 1–2
Einstein, 20
Farragut, 1
Foch, 3
Forgy, 1
Forrest, 1
Francis II, 1
Frederick II, 1, 3, 5
Gabin, 1
Garrod, 1
Grant, U. S., 3–5
Grey, 1
Haydn, 4
Hearst, 1
Holmes, O. W., Jr., 1
Kennedy, J. F., 2
Lee, R. E., 1
Lincoln, A., 14
Lloyd George, 2
Lobengula, 1
Lowell, Amy, 2
Madison, D., 1
Napoleon I, 8
Napoleon III, 3
Nelson, 6
Patton, 1
Peard, 1
Philip, J. W., 1
Picasso, 5
Pyrrhus, 1
Rivera, 1
Sherman, W. H., 1
Stalin, 2
Washington, 2
Waugh, 3
Woollcott, 1
War of the Worlds
Barrymore, J., 7
warnings
Caesar, 1, 8
Servetus, 1
water
Polk, 1
Waterloo
Montgomery, B. L., 3
wealth. See also millionaires
Astor, J. J., 1
Bryan, 3
Getty, 2
Hearst, 2
Hemingway, 4
Kennedy, J. F., 5
Morgan, J. P., Jr., 1
Muir, 1
Plato, 3
Rothschild, 1
Sargent, J. S., 1
Thales, 2
Vanderbilt, W. H., 3
Woollcott, 4
weapons
Adams, A. A., 1
Charondas, 1
weather
Eden, W., 1
Einstein, 22
Lawrence, T. E., 3
Partridge, 2
Sheridan, R. B., 2
Swift, 5
Taft, W. H., 1
weddings
Louis XVI, 1
Skinner, O., 1
weight loss
Reagan, N., 3
welcomes
Kennedy, J. F., 17
westerns
Nicholson, 1
Peckinpah, 1
whispering
Pater, 1
White House
Kennedy, R., 3
West, 4
widowers
William III, 1
widows
Alexandra, 1
Parker, D., 14
Richelieu, 3
wigs
Morley, C., 1
will power
Marquis, 1
wills (inheritances)
Fugger, 1
Lenclos, 5
Rhodes, 4
Rubinstein, Artur, 1
Sheridan, R. B., 12
Sophocles, 1
Stevenson, R. L., 1
wimps
Rather, 1
wine
Brahms, 5
Brillat-Savarin, 1
Charlemagne, 1
Cook, 1
Evarts, 2
Fugger, 1
Joyce, James, 8
Kelly, M., 1
Rossini, 8
Sheridan, R. B., 1
wishes
Barnum, 4
Roosevelt, F. D., 1
wit
Churchill, W., 3, 8
Foote, 2
Rogers, S., 2
Wordsworth, 3
witchcraft
Jackson, S., 1
witches
Mansfield, 1
Parker, D., 7
witnesses
Smith, F. E., 4
wives. See also marriage
Allen, E., 3
Arria, 1
Beckett, 2
Beecham, Sir T., 3
Butler, S., 5
Byrd, 1
Cadbury, 1
Caroline of Brunswick, 3–4
Carter, 1
Catherine of Aragon, 1
Darwin, C. R., 2
de Gaulle, 1
Dewey, 1
Einstein, 11–12, 17
Gelon, 1
George III, 3
George V, 6
Gladstone, 1
Guitry, 1
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 3
Heine, 1
Holmes, F. D., 1–3
Kennedy, J. F., 1
Kreisler, 4
Levant, 3
Lincoln, A., 13
Mankiewicz, 2
Maugham, 5
Parker, Q., 1
Somerset, 1
Susann, 5
Truman, 5
Twain, 4
Victoria, 8
Werfel, 1
women
Carillo, 1
Disraeli, 11
Hutton, L., 1
Monroe, 2
Ramsey, 1
Twain, 20
Zaharias, 1
women’s rights. See also feminism
Anthony, S. B., 1–3
Barton, 2
Churchill, W., 7
words
Allen, D., 1
Greeley, 4
Shaw, 1, 10
Thurber, 4
Webster, N., 1
work. See also employment; manual labor
Brandeis, 1
Darrow, 5
Evans, A., 1
Flaubert, 2
Harriman, 1
Johnson, L. B., 3
Kennedy, J. F., 5
Kissinger, 4
Napoleon I, 3
Tyler, 1
worry
Reagan, N., 3
Twain, 22
wrinkles
Elizabeth the Queen Mother, 6
writers. See also journalists; playwrights; poets
Adams, F. P., 4
Addison, 2
Algren, 1
Allen, F., 4
Allingham, 1
Anderson, 2
Arlen, 1
Aymé, 1
Balzac, 3, 5–7, 9
Beckett, 1–2
Behan, 2
Belloc, 3
Benchley, 12
Bennett, A., 1–2
Bernard, 7
Berra, 3
Boileau, 1
Brontë, 2
Brown, C. B., 1
Browning, R., 1
Buckley, 2
Butler, S., 2
Byron, 4
Cabell, 1
Campbell, T., 1
Carlyle, 1
Carroll, J., 1
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