Word: candelabras
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...Porter's medieval Italian dining room table has been put to use as a mammoth desk for the Dean, and Elmwood's candelabra have been fashioned into lamps for most of the house. The new dining room stands out in Napoleonic splendor. Surely, the historical societies which were so apprehensive last year are delighted with the results of Harvard's restoration...
...shore. Such excursions seemed enriching, and by the night of his first concert, Richter was ready with more than just music. Hoping to cast a sympathetic spell for his program of Chopin and Schumann, Richter adorned the Salle Gaveau stage with flowers, tapestries and a battalion of immense candelabra-a naive little gesture that welcomed disaster by suggesting that the spirit of Liberace dwelt in the room beside...
...while both Jorge and Viridiana are away from home, the lower orders rise up and breach the walls of privilege. Eager as rats they scatter through the house, squeaking and plundering, happy as fiends with a rich man's soul. Out come the linens and the candelabra, the rare wines, the cates and dainties, a whole lamb. Like dukes the poor pilgarlics sit them down to a palatial feast that rapidly degenerates into a gutter brawl. But the brawl is intended also as a rite, as the dissolution of a desiccated society in a Dionysian mystery. In the depths...
...gaming act. Crockford's was bought by an Old Harrovian entrepreneur, blond, beefy Tim Holland. 35, who brags of learning bridge when he was nine. He transformed the club's venerable second floor with $80,000 worth of silk damask wall coverings and 18th century candelabra, imported eight French croupiers and French-made plastic chips representing $1,500,000 (highest chip: $2,800) for four chemmy and eight poker tables. In return for a cut of the take. Businessman Holland persuaded foxy old Isidor Abbecassis. Le Touquet's casino czar, to preside over his remodeled Pandemonium. Since...
...company sells franchises to more than 300 dealers, who buy their equipment from United. The Hertz car-rental firm last year got into the act with three Chicago stores, and more planned. These two companies, as well as scores of independent dealers, can supply customers with anything from antique candelabra to concrete mixers...