Word: panelling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...aside, a murmer of horror went up from the onlookers, many of whom, it was noticed, were old men-dignified seigneurs, others whose peaked countenances and obvious irascibility made it clear that they could come under no definition other than that of curmudgeon. They aimed trembling fingers at a panel of the memorial which was said to represent Rima, bird-nymph, a character in Hudson's Green Mansions. Next morning, letters appeared in the press denouncing the plaque as an "atrocity," calling upon the Government to remove it, hinting that "there were those" who would subscribe the necessary funds...
...felony, except in certain very special cases, could be put on trial. It has always been considered a means of protecting the citizen against unfounded accusations whether "directed by the Government or prompted by partisan passion or private enmity." The effort in many communities is to have grand jury panel made up of leading citizens and to have inclusion in rolls a mark of honor. In most states the substitution of an information by a public official for an indictment a grand jury requires an of amendment the state constitution...
...John Hewlett, gentleman, who lived on Long Island in the early 17th Century. This Hewlett, since he had a word to say from time to time to a secret friend or a smuggler maybe, furnished his library with a little stairway to the cellar behind a sliding panel, by which means he managed his affairs quite neatly and kept mud from the hall carpet...
...Tales are told of his Oxford days when, in postprandial exuberance, he would harangue a blithe gathering in his rooms upon his years of study at the science of propelling a spheroid. He would then tee a ball on the carpet and drive it smashing through a closet panel. Another feat was to loft balls from the lawn of University College to the sward of Queen's College over the walls and across "the High." A servant would then call at Queens, mocking politely: "Mr. Tolley's compliments to the gentlemen of Queens and might he have his golf balls...
Preparations were begun yesterday at the Widener Library for the cutting of an inscription in the panel over the doorway between the Sargent mural paintings. The inscription was originally planned in connection with the paintings, but its cutting was delayed at the time of their installation last fall. The work started yesterday will not be completed until after Commencement...