Word: candelabra
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Five thousand Russians paid $6,000 to hear famed Menshevik* Alexander Feodorovitch Kerensky, onetime Russian Dictator, speak at the Century Theatre, Manhattan. Amid furious excitement a half-ton bronze candelabra was uprooted and flung down in the lobby by the sheer pressure of the crowd. Bolsheviks† yelled. Tsarists brandished canes. Both factions detest M. Kerensky because he is more radical than the Tsarists and less radical than the Bolsheviks...
...eight evenings at sundown, beginning with the Sabbath eve, (Friday) almost every Jewish household assembled before an odd-shaped candelabra, a candleholder with nine sockets-eight in as straight array as a well drilled military squad, the ninth in the solitude of the leader, the pilot. Each evening the paterfamilias, as family priest, lit the pilot, handed it most carefully over to his youngest to light; on the first night of Channukah, one taper, on the second two, until on the eighth night the children blinked with dazzled delight before the nine bright, golden flame-tips that bobbed, nodded, winked...
...dear Bishop Manning?If it fits in with its architectural plan and would be acceptable to the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, I should be pleased to contribute two seven-branched candelabra, to be in size and form a bronze facsimile of The Menorah, which, as you know, was a feature of Solomon's Temple...
...addition to the gift of the candelabra, I shall be pleased to subscribe ten thousand dollars ($10,000) to your building fund; and I also wish to assure you of the sympathy of The New York Times and Its purpose to aid enthusiastically in securing the $15,000,000 fund...
...with laurel festoons. On the east and west ends a brighter light came in from the Dining Room and Periodical Room, both of which were illuminated with strings of Japanese lanterns. An attractive feature of the Game and Writing Rooms was the festooning of yachting flags. Red globes and candelabra with a profusion of palms and plants carried out the general color scheme of red and green, while pictures, banners, cushions, lamps, and flowers in and about the boxes were delightfully effective...