Word: paneling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...This picture was put into the hand of Mr. Herbert E. Thompson of the Department of Paimings a the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Mr. Thompson, after many years of study, had devised an aluminum panel for the preservation of pictures...
With the aid of this panel, the painting was removed entirely from the canvas, a new gesso foundation was applied, and the paint was replaced as it had been. In all, the operation took a year and a half of the most delicate work. The results were amazing to students of painting methods, since the picture today is an admirable example of one of the great Venetian masters, instead of being a total loss...
...more staid of subscribers carped; others acquiesced. Last week, in London, Artist Frank Brangwyn continued with his plans, imperturbed. From a U. S. revue appearing at the London Pavilion, he selected Negro show girls as the models for the panels he is designing for the War memorial of the House of Lords in the Royal Gallery. The sheen of ebony figures will appear on the panel representing the Maltese Islands in the series called the "Pageant of the Empire," which show the various racial types. Carpers were alarmed by suspicions of fierce negroid heads, gleaming black torsos, black limbs...
...confused with the Hague Court, though located at the Hague. The Hague Court is not actually a court, but a panel of international jurists from among whom several are assigned to consider a given case, if and when it is presented for adjudication by the disputants. The World Court, on the other hand, consists of a definite court of judges who sit together on every question. They are nominated through the machinery of the Hague Court and elected by the Assembly of the League of Nations...
...solve this gritty problem a Citizens Play Jury was planned some years ago. A panel of several hundred jurors, intelligent citizens from all walks of life, was drawn. When a complaint was lodged a dozen of these jurors were delegated to judge the entertainment. If nine of the dozen found it, or any part of it, unfit, the whole or the part was to be withdrawn. The Producing Managers Association and the Actors Equity Association pledged themselves to enforce its decrees by withdrawing their plays or calling out their actors...