Word: parceled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...small brown unidentified parcel that the postman delivered to Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum was carelessly wrapped and uninsured. When the wrinkled wrappings were removed, museum officials stared in wonder. The face painted on the old, 11½ by 8⅜ in. wooden panel was familiar, but it had not been around for a long time...
...time being, contributors will get modest pay. But lucky Ludwig Bemelmans was allowed to name his own price for a parcel of text and sketches. Said Charlie: "He charged us two cases of champagne, six bottles of brandy, a jar of Coronas and a box of sleeping pills...
...assiduously corrupts his younger brother (Tommy Cook), and does his best to exploit the emotions of the one decent girl (Debra Paget) he has ever known. All this heelish behavior is shown to be worse than mere lawbreaking, and all of it is shown to be part & parcel of a lawbreaker's mentality. The movies seldom attempt so much, and seldom carry it out with such knowing attention to character and detail...
Airmail. U.S. Post Offices began to take domestic air parcel post (over eight ounces and up to 70 pounds). Private companies will continue to handle air express and large commercial shipments...
...Falls City, Neb. railroad engineer, went a letter: "On account of my great age [87] and rather poor health, I am very glad and thankful when my dear overseas friends send a CARE package to me. Perhaps you also could help me by such a parcel." Gus, who once knew Ferdinand's railroad-crazy late son Boris (he once sent Boris a streamlined model electric train and got a diamond stickpin and 16 bottles of rare Bulgarian wine in return), promptly sent a CARE package on its way to papa Ferdinand in Coburg, Germany...