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Minutes passed. Dessert was passing in under the white mustache. Then suddenly the doorman of the Savoy snapped to attention as Mr. Lloyd George's coat passed over the threshold, a hat jammed down over the collar, two shabby trouser legs oscillating beneath...
...afternoon last week, the Presidential flag dipped in the fresh breeze, rose for the first time to the top of the flagstaff there. Before the door of the white marble mansion, President Coolidge stood with his white collie, Rob Roy, posed for photographers, followed the dog over the threshold into his new home. Through the huge foyer he walked, past the costly Gobelin tapestry at his left, up the marble stairway lined with heads of mountain goats, lions, elk and caribou. Into the large room next to the library that is to be his workshop he stepped, paused, smiled...
...rang the doorbell at the home of Joseph Adams, 300-pound mayor of West City, Ill. The mayor, incautious, unsuspecting, opened the door. His callers took hasty shots at the 300-pound target, ran for their machines, left Mayor Adams dying across his threshold. Now the State of Illinois holds Charles Birger, gunman, gangster, as accessory to the murder of Joe Adams...
...film, including the banned "Fatty" Arbuckle ones. When President Coolidge was summering at Swampscott in 1925, friends of Mr. Phillips suggested he invite the President to his cinema exhibitions. Said he: "Nup, it's a private show!" He was a bachelor; for 40 years no woman crossed the threshold of his home. There is a story that once he loved the daughter of a Salem shipowner. She refused him, but later hinted that she had changed her mind. Said he: "So have I, Madam...
...returning the blocks and other impedimenta hurled out of the bed. No sooner is a child able to walk but he has a desire to go faster, and this, strange to say, is the beginning of running, except that the child only wants to get somewhere Jumping over the threshold is a rainy day sport of the three-year-olds, and when at nine one is caught stealing the neighbor's apples one is surprised to find what a clever hurdler or pole-vaulter...