Albany

ALBANY:

1. A place beyond which Henry Hudson could not go.
2. The lobby of the White House.
3. Famous in history by the biennial meetings of the Blackmailers' Club.
4. Any place wherein a capitol is burned at a pre-established psychological moment. (There is a famous proverb which says, "Those who are in Albany escaped Sing Sing, and those who are in Sing Sing were on their way to Albany.")