Word: candlestick
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Jean Frenchman rushed to his favorite wine merchant, to his tobacconist, to his butcher, baker, candlestick maker. Hastily, he laid in a supply of articles about to become vastly more expensive. Then, clutching his remaining franc notes, he sought out the sellers of foreign bonds and securities...
...again the claim of High-Church Episcopalians to be "in no way numbered among those Christian bodies which are decended from the Reformation of the 16th Century." While the Episcopal Church recognizes but two sacraments, the Catholic Episcopalians insist upon seven-the seven-pointed lights in the seven-branched candlestick of Rome. Confession is obligatory. Stoups for Holy Water have recently been installed in Anglo-Catholic parishes in Manhattan. Holy communion is spoken of as "mass"; indeed, a "Solemn High Mass" was the phrase with which an official handbook described the service for which the members of the congress gathered...
...Conference (see Page 11), partly the result of extraordinary rumors of an enormous merger in the automobile industry; partly a mechanical culmination of the last feverish weeks-the interest of J. P. Morgan & Co. in U. S. Steel and General Motors; the eagerness of the butcher, the baker, the candlestick maker for over half the stocks listed by the Exchange...
Present day parades are infinitely more amusing than a mere collection of well-worn jungle beasts. Elks, Eagles, Masons, Knights of Columbus, of the Fiery Circle, W. C. T. U. S. P. C. A., and other initialed and braided orders of butcher, baker, and candlestick maker fill the head with a whir at the complexity and beauty of American civilisation. And who would dim the lusty torchlights of Republicans and Democrats...
...exciting verse-Jack be nimble, Jack be quick, Jack jump over the candlestick-"puts ideas into children's heads . . . they might kill themselves, or at least do themselves bodily injury...