Word: candelabra
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Before the window is a simple oak altar topped by two vases of fresh flowers and a spotlighted Bible (King James version, open to the 23rd Psalm). The room's only other furniture: an American flag, two electric candelabra, a pair of kneeling benches and ten armchairs. For four days last week, the public got its first and last look at the room; henceforth, it will be open to Senators and Representatives only. A screen covering the entrance will ensure privacy, but an attendant will be allowed to call meditating legislators to the telephone or to the floor when...
...Thank you very kindly," said the figure, bowing deeply, "I only wish I could see you all better." The lights went on and the maestro lisped quietly, "Isn't that wonderful, George." The lights dimmed, leaving two mauves spots which focused on a fives-branched candelabra glowing on top of the piano. Resting his fingers on the keyboard, he turned and simpered, "I can't believe it," then swung into the Cornish Rhapsody...
...chiefly for poverty, tuberculosis, and eels caught in the nearby lagoons, it had a period of illicit prosperity in the 1920s. When the Valle Trebba was drained by a reclamation project, its muddy bottom proved to be an ancient necropolis. Out of 1,250 tombs came bronze vases and candelabra, gold and silver jewelry and a wealth of beautiful pottery. Part of it was of Etruscan manufacture dating as far back as the 5th century B.C. Much of the rest was Greek of various periods...
...young Etruscan woman with a necklace of Baltic amber and a beautifully worked gold brooch an inch and a half in diameter. Another yielded a gold diadem seven inches across, decorated with bearded heads and an Amazon shooting an arrow. Equally interesting are the bronzes, one of which, a candelabra, shows the figure of Hermes leading a soul to the underworld...
...next he may be slanging to beat Broadway. Even the backdrops are out of sorts with one another and with the story. In one scene Frontierswoman Crawford, dressed to the nines in a Paris gown, sits down to a grand piano in a mat-red grotto lit by candelabra, and plunks .away like a cowtown Liberace while the posse thunders toward a sort of sagebrush Götterdämmerung...