Word: candlelit
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...House committees of Quincy and Leverett also approved plans for a candlelit supper in Leverett dining hall after the Yale game. Although fire regulations may forbid the candles, the social committee promises a bottle of wine for each couple and a jazz group to play during the dinner...
...evening ended with a brilliant ball at the red brick British embassy, where the most select 600 mingled in marble halls, danced past the gold pillars of the grand ballroom, relaxed at candlelit tables on flagstone terraces. One terrace was covered by a white silk tent trimmed in gold, ashimmer with garlands of tiny lights-all designed for the 1957 visit of Queen Elizabeth...
...this is amiable in its vaporous way is best explained in two words: Art Carney. Carney is a master of comic body English: when he stumbles over a table in the flickering, candlelit murk of a coffeehouse and barks at the bohemian proprietor like a wounded seal, "Are you OPEN?", he is inexpressibly funny. As lovable as Carney's philistine brute is Elizabeth Ashley's collegiate beauty, perfumed with dew-behind-the-ears charm. Between them, these two duck a good many of the script's incessantly bursting soap bubbles...
...when a group of Humboldt students and professors appealed to U.S. General Lucius Clay for a new school, got money and help from the U.S. and West Berlin's late Mayor Ernst Reuter. Organized on the same day that the Berlin blockade began, Free University started out with candlelit classes in a few shoddy houses and the remains of ths-Kaiser Wilhelm Institute, its campus the city's streets and its study halls any handy park bench...
Lollo Is 101. By hook or by looks, Germans scramble avidly to get in on Madame Club's frequent gala nights. As many as 400 guests cram into the high-columned room (legal limit: 80), often sit two-deep at the candlelit, mirror-topped tables. House champagne costs only $4 a bottle, but vintage Moet & Chandon at $12 is swilled and spilled by the Jeroboam. The entertainment consists mostly of commercials. One recent evening Meat Packer (and charter member) Kurt Distler presented a program devoted to a new, deep-frozen brand of sausage. Status seekers come anyway...