Word: paneling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...slips on an icy walk are the results of a deep-rooted reflex possessed by all animals, fully developed in newborn babes, unshakable by training. Now that it imperils motorcar operators, Dr. Henderson thinks it could be successfully sidetracked by installing a pedal in the shape of a wide panel almost flush with the floor boards under the driver's left foot. When the "extensor thrust" shoots both his legs out, though the right foot may jam down the accelerator, the pedal pushed by the left foot will turn off the ignition or close the carburetor intake...
Down on Sixth & Greenwich Avenues, Manhattan, there was great excitement in the women's jail last week. On the recreation roof of the House of Detention for Women, one of the best known model prisons in the U. S., a great fresco panel, first of a series depicting The Cycle of a Woman's Life was just finished. Giggling, nudging, shrilling with excitement, the inmates in their brown-&-white-checked house dresses crowded round the small, serious artist with cries of "Ain't it purty...
...Board of Education has just announced the decision to have the panel removed, which, of course, amounts to destruction. I do not consider this affair a personal matter and I will do everything within my power to fight for the public's right to be protected from the censorship of a few individuals who claim that "the infantile mentality of the American people" should be preserved at any cost...
Nearly 50 years ago this and three other Siena back panels were found in an Italian antique shop by the late British Collector Robert Henry Benson. In 1927 his entire collection was bought by Lord Duveen for $3,000,000, brought to the U. S. Lord Duveen quickly wrote off a third of his investment by selling the four Duccios for $1,000,000, two to John D. Rockefeller Jr., one to the Frick Collection, and the fourth to Mr. Mackay who sold it to Mr. Kress for exactly what he paid for it less the Duveen commission...
...fellow members trotted into the school, peeked, generally condemned the painting for its ugliness, its nudity or both. Said Chairman Mrs. George Rounsaville: "The work is magnificent . . . but too ghastly for a school building." Last week she announced that her board would ask the artist to tone down his panel...