Word: candelabrums
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...stealthy, seething intrigue and red-blooded action. Them was the days when you didn't clout a guy over the head with an epigram or plug him with a bullet; you killed him at the end of a fifteen minute sequence of dueling and overturned every table, chair, and candelabrum in the bargain...
...Chancellorship, Benno Elkan correctly guessed that Germany would soon be an unhealthy place for him. He packed his trunks and a few of his more portable sculptures and fled across the Swiss border. One thing he took with him was a huge (6 ft. high, 7 ft. wide), bronze candelabrum, bristling with Biblical figures. Nazi authorities proclaimed him a degenerate artist whose real Jewish name was L. Kahn, set about systematically confiscating and destroying all of his statues they could lay hammers...
...portrait busts of Prince Edward, John D. Rockefeller and the abdicated King of Siam (who posed for him a full week) caused town talk. But of all his exhibited pieces, the one that attracted most attention was the gaunt candelabrum he had taken with him out of Germany. Last week British art-lovers bought it for a niche in Westminster Abbey. Said gratified Sculptor Elkan: "This is my greatest honor...
Down an Episcopal church aisle in Corpus Christi, Tex. this week was to march a Jewish rabbi bearing a Menorah or seven-branched temple candelabrum. An Episcopal rector was to read from the Reformed Jewish prayer book. The rabbi in turn was to pronounce the solemn syllables of the King James version of the New Testament. Cheek by jowl in the church pews would sit Episcopalians and Jews of the only U. S. town named for the sacred Body of Christ...
GLORY BE TO THE HOLY VIRGIN WHO PROTECTED US IN THE THICK FOG. THIS CANDELABRUM IS DEDICATED TO OUR SEAMEN...