Word: paneling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dollars to the city. Mr. Hayes's widowed mother went on his $25,000 bond. Last week Mr. Hayes's lawyers fought tooth & nail to save him by querying prospective jurors so closely that, after three weeks, they had accepted only eight out of a venire panel...
Sometime around 1500 a queer Florentine named Piero, of whom it is recorded that he hated the amenities and liked anything wild, was commissioned to paint a decorative panel for the palazzo of one Giovanni Vespucci. A Rousseauist ahead of his time, Piero proceeded to turn out another painting of his favorite subject, primitive life...
...sharp-witted Clifton Fadiman, book reviewer for The New Yorker. Permanent bulls have been Franklin Pierce ("F. P. A.") Adams and the New York Times'?, amazingly broadly informed Sportswriter John Kieran. Paul de Kruif, Stuart Chase, Marc Connelly, John Gunther, Alice Duer Miller have been among the weekly panel of guests. Matador Fadiman's banderillas are trick questions selected from some 60.000 sent in every week by listeners (reversing the usual procedure of experts questioning audience...
...panel of "qualified and experienced" citizens available as arbiters...
...Blue ribbon juries are called only in important or intricate cases or cases involving homicide, and only with the approval of the presiding judge. Blue ribbon jurors, drawn by lot from the regular jury panel, are examined in person by the Commissioner of Jurors. Qualifications: alertness, more than average intelligence, more than $250 worth of personal property. Prosecutor Dewey has had blue ribbon juries in all his major racket cases...