Oscar Wilde Vs. Lewis Morris

Morris had just been passed over for the Poet Laureateship.

Winston Churchill Vs. George Bernard Shaw

Winston Churchill Vs. Lady Astor

Calvin Coolidge Vs. An Opera Singer

Muhammad Ali Vs. Joe Frazier

Winston Churchill Vs. A Member Of Parliament

Winston Churchill Vs. Bessie Braddock

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Vs. An Admirer

Miriam Hopkins Vs. An Anonymous Singer

Ilka Chase Vs. An Anonymous Actress

John Wilkes Vs. John Montagu

Mohandas Gandhi Vs. Western Civilization

Edna Ferber Vs. Noel Coward

Coward was remarking upon the fact that Ferber was wearing a tailored suit.

James McNeill Whistler Vs. Oscar Wilde

After Whistler had made a particularly witty observation.

Pierre Trudeau Vs. Richard Nixon

Upon hearing that Nixon had called him an asshole.

Thomas Reed Vs. Henry Clay

Earnest Hemingway Vs. William Faulkner

John Barrymore Vs. A Woman In The Lady’s Room

Barrymore was drunkenly urinating in the wrong bathroom, and turned to face his accuser, penis in hand

Robert Benchley Vs. A Man In Uniform

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