Word: treading
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...seen in a rear seat on the Democratic side watching legislation hawk-eyed. With women in its membership, the House is used to having women on its floor; hence it admitted women secretaries long ago. But not the Senate, where men are statesmen. Women members of the House may tread there. And "grand old" Mrs. Rebecca Ratimer Felton of Georgia, was actually Senator, for one day in 1922, by a southern gentleman-governor's gesture.* But women secretaries have been barred even more rigorously than senators-suspect...
Does the Harvard Lampoon hit too hard, or are academic communities abnormally thin-skinned? At royal courts the function of the king's fool was to rush in where statesmen feared to tread. It was recognized as one needful to the safety of monarchy itself. The true word spoken in jest might be the salvation of the throne. Shall opinion in a modern university be more autocratic than monarchy, and revoke the jester's license...
...DUTY TO PRESERVE THE UNITY OF THE STATE BY EVERY MEANS IN MY POWER. TO SEEK TO REMOVE THESE ABUSES BY FRESH ELECTIONS WOULD HAVE BEEN A WASTE OF TIME AND VALUABLE ENERGY. BY SUCH METHODS WE HAVE ALREADY LOST MANY PRECIOUS YEARS. WE MUST TRY OTHER METHODS AND TREAD NEW PATHS...
Puzzled Hindus pondered whether it is now safe to tread upon a ladybug-whose wish at the moment one has no means of ascertaining-would she seem menaced with assault...
...irritating to the skeptic. But it certainly consoles those with a larger and deeper philosophy of life. One feels as the one ought to kneel to worship the brave hero who should defy the current cake of though. Someone has said,--"Fools rush in where Angels fear to tread", but I question whether the world should ever have advanced had we never had these so called "fools". A study of historical progress might seem then, according to this thesis, a study of fools in chronological order beginning with Socrates and following through with Erasmus, Copernicus, Bruno, Sir Thomas Moore, Tolstoy...