Word: candelabras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...came the bridal procession, the feathery green of tender laurel that wreathed choir stalls, pulpit and rood screen, and the curving fronds of a few giant palms massed in the chancel, pointing the way to the altar where the snowy chalices of tall Easter lilies were sentineled by blazing candelabra, seven-branched. . . . "Very pretty with lovely light brown hair and gray-blue eyes, the bride's youthfulness suddenly seemed to take on a certain queenliness as she swept from end to end of this lane of light. Her gown of soft white crinkly crepe was the essence of simplicity...
...CANDELABRA - John Galsworthy - Scribner ($2). Posthumous essays...
...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...
Coolidge was welcomed to Lowell House by J. L. Coolidge '95, master of the House. The welcome was followed by Coolidge's presentation of the candelabras and their acceptance by President Lowell for Lowell House. Mr. Coolidge was then thanked for the candelabra and his permanent interest in the House plan was mentioned...
...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...