Word: candelabra
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...usual high table dinner in Lowell House last night C. A. Coolidge '81, member of the Boston firm of Coolidge, Shepley, Bulfinch, and Abbott, architects of all the Houses except Adams House and of many other University buildings, presented two pairs of three-branched silver candelabra to Lowell House...
...jewel-studded relics which grateful Eastern emperors had given him in Constantinople. Otto IV donated the treasure, adding more himself, to the Cathedral of St. Blasius which Henry the Lion had built in the city of Brunswick. Other Guelphs did likewise, bought saints' bones, holy skulls, jeweled monstrances, candelabra, etc. etc. After 300 years of this the Guelphs felt that they had collected enough. Ten years before America was discovered they made an inventory which might well serve as a catalog of the exhibition shown in New York last week. Until ten months ago the entire Welfenschatz remained...
...will kindly give me the post office address of Dr. Thomas O. Mabbott of Hunter College, who as I see by the article is an authority on Poe and his handwriting. I am past 81 years of age and have recently sold a pair of Sheffield plate candelabra to the Poe Shrine at Richmond, Va. (Miss) ELVA P. BARNEY...
Lisbon papers rumored last week that what had roused President Carmona (himself addicted to fountain pens) to have the inkstand made was the wedding of Princess Marie Jose of Belgium (TIME, Jan. 13). Finding it necessary to order a candelabra for H. R. H., he went the whole hog, ordered the Peace Palace's inkstand too, plus a tray for it to stand on, plus two goose quill pens...
...Unless she is borne to the dinner [for James Ramsay MacDonald at the White House] triumphant on the shoulders of Mrs. Nick Longworth and seated in the center of the table as a centerpiece with a silver candelabra in both hands and fed her soup with a long handled spoon by the wife of the Secretary of State, Kansas won't be responsible for what her presidential electors do in 1932. Verbum...