Word: candlestick
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first, he toyed with the idea of merely smearing abstract designs on the canvas. "I said to myself, 'the police don't understand anything about art, and it won't matter if I just paint stripes or circles.' " But he found himself copying a crystal candlestick and a blue porcelain vase which he saw in his studio. "Much to my surprise," he says, "something decent actually turned up." Emanuel grew a husky white beard to complete his disguise, and painted away delightedly...
...already broken off his son's engagement with Mena, the eldest Malavoglia girl; the shipwright now ordered his daughter to stop seeing young 'Ntoni, Mena's brother. Grandfather 'Ntoni only drove the fishing harder. The neighbors said he was "hunting for trouble with a candlestick." One night he found it. The boom fell in a bad storm and struck his head. 'Ntoni and Alessi, his little brother, barely got the boat ashore; Grandfather 'Ntoni was laid up for months...
This week once again the great American taxpayer-that irascible and yet docile composite of the butcher, the baker, the candlestick maker, John D. Rockefeller Jr., Senator Taft, John L. Lewis and the fellow next door-was working over his income-tax return. He did not do the job happily, or-in a year when he couldn't quite decide whether his country was at peace or at war-even very patriotically. The feeling that an enormous eye in Washington watched him as he wrote down his deductions was often all that kept him from cheating-and sometimes that...
...when he hath lighted a candle, putteth it . . . under a light, but on a candlestick, that they which come in may see the light. St. Luke, Chapter 11, Verse...
Road, where he and his brothers collect art and lavishly entertain visiting mob chieftains. Those that didn't fade were mortally embarrassed by the subpoena servers. "They went around to the butcher, the baker and the candlestick maker," complained Joe Adonis. "They made slurring remarks...