Word: threshold
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...printable, proceeded to issue an extraordinary written statement for quotation: "I was very much disturbed . . . because a Congressional committee charged with the responsibility of investigating un-American activities should have permitted itself to be used in a flagrantly unfair and un-American attempt to influence an election. . . . On the threshold of a vitally important gubernatorial election, they permitted a disgruntled Republican judge, a discharged Republican city manager and a couple of officious police officers to make lurid charges against Governor Frank Murphy.'' Mr. Roosevelt then complimented the Governor for postponing forcible action while negotiations...
...Newshawks asked if he would carry Mrs. Ickes across the threshold when they got home. "Nothing doing!" said Mr. Ickes. Said athletic Mrs. Ickes: ''After all the French pastry I've been eating, I don't think he could...
...think of his own community, for as each community becomes more integrated, the need for the knowledge gained by its youth increases. With the age of social well-being on the horizon, educators must soon recognize the problem of misused education, and instead of leaving the student on the threshold of life to grope for his niche, they should point out the advantages of applying his training in his own community. It is time for a new Horace Greeley to rise and shout, Go Home, Young...
...three, a never-ending supply of clean white gloves. A clean white glove is the cachet of respectability in the Four Hundred. With a pair of clean white gloves, it's even possible to get past Psychic, the Perfect Butler who guards the threshold of J. P. Morgan on Murray Hill...
...Vivacious Lady needs only a snipping-out of sophomoric circumstances here & there to bring it to the top comedy class. Most ribald sequence, primed by Director George Stevens to go off in the Hays office's face, comes when Bridegroom Stewart tries to carry Bride Rogers over the threshold of a Pullman drawing room, to find it already occupied by a truculent, long wed pair of grumps...