Word: candelabra
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...London last week the big cream-&-gold salon of Lancaster House had been tidied up. The ornate wall mirrors, the candelabra and the red leather chairs were dusted and in place. The Big Four Foreign Ministers were ready for another try at writing the German and Austrian peace treaties...
...round of ceremony began again. President Truman drove over to the National Palace for a formal welcome by President Aleman. At 7:30 he was back for a state dinner in the Comedor under the great crystal candelabra installed by Mexico's ill-fated Maximilian and Carlotta...
Exactly how the glass was decorated with its stylized forms was a hard-won secret which involved molds, core-casting, polishing, cutting, sanding. But the results were more than satisfactory to the public: Lalique's staggering assortment of zoological, botanical and nautical forms once decorated everything from candelabra to radiator caps. Lalique glass was a gift-shopkeeper's idea of what the world should look like...
...Suave Count Hervé de Grandsailles, who gave a brilliant dinner party where "congested epiderms . . . empurpled the candelabra," and the guests' faces were "caught in the ferocious meshes of anamorphosis." With "faint but delightful anguish" the Count detected in the "immaculate turgescence" of his cream cheese "the animal femininity of the she-goat...
After two days' wrangling, Tobin rushed out of the candelabra-lit conference room, chortled to the reporters, "Everything's happy." Next afternoon the council voted 10 to 2 to send the application, without recommendation, to the October convention of A.F. of L. in Boston...