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...early years at Washington were happy, a Golden Age. There was a threshold, at 1603 H Street, which was "sooner or later crossed by everybody who possessed real quality"-the threshold of Henry Adams, sardonic New Englander, connoisseur of life and all its arts, a man who said of himself: ". . . as far as he had a function, it was as stable-companion to statesmen, whether they liked it or not." Over the Adams threshold daily came John Hay, "the roving diplomat," Secretary of State to Presidents McKinley and Roosevelt, Adams' great friend. Here came Clarence King, a professional geologist...
Chancellor Wilhelm Marx was confronted with the greatest political enigma that has yet crossed the threshold of his career...
...present, patrons of Memorial must be satisfied with only an occasional extra-curricular visitor. And here again is a difficulty. She who first dares cross the threshold, like the man that ate the first oyster, will be the ultimate in concentrated courage. To face that unmasked battery of six hundred eyes will be no easy task. Mr. Meade may throw open his doors to ladies, But to get them to attend in paying numbers will be, as the Prophet observed, something else again...
...long after receipt of the news in the U. S., reporters crossed the threshold of Mr. Gilbert's office in lower Manhattan, but he was "too busy to comment." Later, however, he unbent, issued a statement...
Parliamentarians were beaming and slapping one another's backs, because they had succeeded in having passed a bill to grant themselves salaries, when there appeared upon the threshold of the Senate a few irate Army officers who loudly protested that they and the working class had been neglected...