Word: parcell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...said the lecture was "today" and at another with equal calm stated that it was to be "tomorrow." He could make adequate rebuttal, but he won't. Did not Keats write of "Stout Cortez?" Are you not answered, oh ye of little faith? And anyway, it is part and parcel of the nuance, the devil may care, the grand elan that makes the Vagabond such a lovable old wastrel. Ask anyone you meet, "What makes the Vagabond such a delightful character?" and the answer will come back, "Why it's because he's so horrid, inaccurate and unbelievable...
...savings accounts; lumbering in national forests by the Department of Agriculture; real estate sales by the General Land Office. Private educators could ask to have Howard University (Negro) in Washington put out of business. Railway Express Agency would like to see the Post Office Department get out of the parcel post business. Private credit companies would like the business now done by the Federal Land Banks...
...multiplied with their well-known rapidity (six litters per year, of four to eight offspring per litter). But suddenly the booming U. S. rabbit industry became overproduced everywhere. And last week bankrupt Mrs. Brown explained: "About a year ago rabbits began coming in from everywhere, thousands of them, by parcel post, truck and express. I couldn't tell if they were the offspring of my rabbits or not, but the people had my contracts, and I had to take them. They ate me out of house & home, and wouldn't go when I turned them loose. I hauled...
HARDEN FEE-Gerald Bullett-Knopf ($2.50). "And the next I do knaw, us be noaten across the grass, and there afront of us, setten on our green downs, neighbors, be a parcel of blessed angels. Hugy gurt baastards they be, twenny feet or more from crown to anklebone, and some of 'em as black as coal. . . ."-thus honest Yokel Mykelborne holding forth in the taproom to his fellow-worthies, who listened chopfallen, goggle-eyed. Such fine and pungent talk was to be had almost any evening in the inn at Marden Fee, and it is the chorus of talk...
...depends upon having more efficient manufacturing processes than its competitors, many of whom are foreign, its secretive attitude is somewhat more understandable. But the heavy silence which shrouds Allied like some dark cloud is a matter of deeper policy than is explained by these facts. It is part and parcel of the company's very life...