Word: threshold
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...threshold of government. We may be called upon in the next few days to take on our shoulders the responsibilities of office. We shall take it. Not because we want it. Has anyone here been so foolish as to hasten the demise of a father who is about to leave him a bankrupt estate ? We know there are risks on every side, but if there are risks there is also a cause." Thus spake Ramsay MacDonald at the Royal Albert Hall in London at a Labor rally...
...Coolidge: " It is greatly to be hoped that we are on the threshold of a new era. The Washington conference, resulting in the first practical limitation of armaments among the nations of the earth, did much to promote peace and goodwill. In our own country rigid economy has brought our expenditures within our income and brought about a reduction in War debts...
Stuyvesant Fish died in New York of heart disease. A directors' meeting of the National Park Bank was assembling. As Mr. Fish stepped across the threshold of the board room, he fell dead. So terminated the career of one of the country's great financial leaders and railroad presidents. A descendant of Petrus Stuyvesant, a grandson of Colonel Nicholas Fish of Revolutionary War fame, the youngest son of Hamilton Fish (Secretary of State under President Grant)-Stuyvesant Fish came from the stock of pioneers and joined the generation of great railroaders. Born in New York...
Last Friday, before a crowded throng of Lenten worshippers in the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, Bishop Manning said: "We are at the threshold of a great religious awakening, of earnest inquiry and of living faith in our Lord Jesus Christ...
...which the Class, Personified by its voting, presents itself to the rest of the college, and discloses it tastes and its character. If it goes to the polls en masse, showing a vigorous interest in its affairs, the reception will probably be favorable. If it falters on the threshold of its sixty-percent quota, it will be classified as commonplace or mediocre. But if it shows so much character as to stay away altogether, who knows? perhaps its elders will respect its individuality-and set about finding a substitute for class elections...