Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Vs. An Admirer
Thomas Reed Vs. Henry Clay
Winston Churchill Vs. Lady Astor
NY Mayor Ed Koch Vs. Andrew Kirtzman
After the reporter insisted on pressing a point about an inconsistent statement Koch had made.
Groucho Marx Vs. A Contestant on "You Bet Your Life"
Groucho Marx Vs. A Contestant on "You Bet Your Life"
Abraham Lincoln Vs. Stephen Douglas
Abraham Lincoln Vs. Stephen Douglas
Calvin Coolidge Vs. An Opera Singer
Pierre Trudeau Vs. Richard Nixon
Upon hearing that Nixon had called him an asshole.
Morris had just been passed over for the Poet Laureateship.
Mohandas Gandhi Vs. Western Civilization
Miriam Hopkins Vs. An Anonymous Singer
John Wilkes Vs. John Montagu
Senator Fritz Hollings Vs. Henry McMastor
When challenged by his Republican opponent during a televised debate to take a drug test.
James McNeill Whistler Vs. Oscar Wilde
After Whistler had made a particularly witty observation.
Bill Clinton Vs. Dan Quayle
After Quayle revealed that he planned to be "a pit bull" in the 1992 campaign against Clinton and Gore.
Niels Bohr Vs. A Reporter
Reverend Edward Everett Hale Vs. The U.S. Senate
When asked if he prayed for the Senators.
Dorothy Parker Vs. New Yorker Editor Harold Ross
Parker had been on her honeymoon, when Harold Ross interrupted her to ask why she was late with a book review.
Edna Ferber Vs. Noel Coward
Coward was remarking upon the fact that Ferber was wearing a tailored suit.
Henry Clay Vs. Massachusetts Senator Daniel Webster
After seeing a pack of mules walk by.
Winston Churchill Vs. A Member Of Parliament
Alcibiades Vs. Pericles
Calvin Coolidge Vs. Some Random Lady At A White House Dinner
Calvin Coolidge Vs. Some Random Lady At A White House Dinner
Calvin Coolidge Vs. Some Random Lady At A White House Dinner
Robert Benchley Vs. A Man In Uniform
Abraham Lincoln Vs. A Foreign Diplomat
After the diplomat found Lincoln polishing his boots in his office.
Muhammad Ali Vs. Joe Frazier
Ilka Chase Vs. An Anonymous Actress
Chief Justice Melville W. Fuller Vs. An Attendee At A Church Conference
After the man ranted against university education and thanked God that he had never been corrupted by going to college.
Winston Churchill Vs. George Bernard Shaw
Winston Churchill Vs. Bessie Braddock
Earnest Hemingway Vs. William Faulkner
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