Word: candelabrums
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...quite. That night the young man sees the same girl standing in the rain and watching him. He chases her, catches her just at the door of her house, eases her upstairs. Diable! She lives in a suite of decadent splendors : baroque candelabrum, Chinese madonna, canopied bed, pair of pigeons murmuring in the dimness amorously. Obviously a love nest. But who is her lover? She will not tell. She will not even tell her own name...
Died. Bonno Elkan, 82, popular Jewish sculptor in pre-Hitler Germany, who fled to London in 1933, taking with him a 7-ft. by 6-ft. candelabrum whose gracefully weaving branches support a group of Biblical characters, a piece that eventually won him acclaim in England and the chance to do powerful busts of such notables as Arturo Toscanini and Winston Churchill; in London...
...bachelor quarters first came his mother Bertha, 71, after whom German troops fondly named the famed "Big Bertha" cannon in World War I. Other relatives followed, presenting greetings and family gifts. Courteously, bowing slightly, Alfried Krupp* received a workers' delegate who stiffly presented him with a large steel candelabrum made in the Krupp factories. Then he settled into a black, chauffeur-driven BMW sedan for the 15-minute ride into Essen, the center of his empire and a city built almost entirely by the Krupps. There the day's most important ceremony began. On Müchener Strasse...
...conventional statues, and illegible cut-metal messages. His 24 Greek Ys look somewhat like stick-figures. They are reminiscent of the ages when letters were pictorial symbols and not just parts of words. Smith's 24 Ys perform a sprightly dance on the arms of a steel-candelabrum, spell out Smith's conviction that sculpture need mean nothing...
...someone hit Randall over the head with what he conceived to be a whiskey bottle. He was then carried to his hotel and given seven stitches in the scalp. Announced El Morocco's management later: "Mr. Randall was not hit with a whiskey bottle. It was a candelabrum." He never got his Welsh rabbit...