Word: candlestick
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mighty fine," said the dubious client, "but where are the customers' yachts?" As of last week, with 30 million Americans sailing almost 6,000,000 boats of all kinds in the greatest boating boom of all time, Wall Street's customers-along with U.S. butchers, bakers and candlestick makers-had enough yachts to swamp Wall Street's navy and dot every U.S. shoreline from California to Maine. How did the boom grow and what is the U.S. boating industry, already awash with prosperity, doing to keep up with a market that will grow to $1.5 billion this...
...first full day in the convention city, Nixon received a silver candlestick and an endorsement from the Young Republicans, saw delegations from Michigan, Wisconsin, New York (where Tom Dewey had given him an unqualified, effective endorsement), Pennsylvania and Missouri (where Delegation Chairman Elroy Bromwich remained a feeble flicker of anti-Nixon sentiment). Next day came eight more delegations, and the day after that, nine. Also on the program: a trip to the International Airport to greet Dwight Eisenhower...
...Beans. There have been only isolated protests. A Cambridgeshire vicar, the Rev. Eric Arthur Marsh, helped start a Farmers and Smallholders Association, demanded bitterly: "Why should not the inefficient factory owner be dispossessed? The inefficient butcher, baker, candlestick maker? The answer is easy. The farmer has sacrificed his liberty and freedom for the price of a bag of beans...
Illustrating his procedure by picking up a candlestick, Rorimer demonstrates the connoisseur's approach: "My first question would be,-'What did this candlestick really look like originally?' I developed such a passion for cleaning art objects that museum people use to call me 'Mr. Sapolio.' Then I'd ask, 'How did it look in its original setting?' I'd try to reconstruct the setting in my mind. Now in a museum you can actually give some idea of the original setting - not much, but some. For instance, some doors...
...into Friar Laurence, thus saving the day?" Laurence, of course, wanders out the back door of the cathedral just as Romeo arrives at the front. There is a good deal more puffing and groaning than necessary, too, while Romeo forces his way into the vault with a broken candlestick which he had to run all the way back to the church...