Word: parcell
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Interstate Commerce Commission held hearings in Cincinnati to determine the legality of 10?-a-parcel porter service, Red Cap Clinton McDuffy testified that on one occasion he had been unconsciously underpaid (50? for a 70? service) by Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt...
There has just arrived at my house a parcel from California containing: 2 Ib. tea, ½ Ib. gelatine, 8 Ib. sugar, 2 Ib. cocoa, i Ib. powdered milk, 3 Ib. dried fruit...
...Three Cities will trouble neither the ghost of Charles Dickens nor the minds of the hammock readers, its probable audience. It is quite harmless. But like most of the other "historical novels" whose chief distinction lies in the fact that they are too heavy to be shipped by parcel post, its interest lies mainly in suggesting the question: why anyone should have taken the trouble to write...
...goods were not delivered by October or November. Though not payable in cash, the forfeits would be settled by establishing Reichsmark credits applicable on purchases from the Reich. Meanwhile, Nazi trade efforts were expedited by batches of German propaganda material, dyes and machine parts sent by international parcel post, via Russia and Japan and in many cases delivered by U. S. ships...
Sincere, hearty, full of gallant buck-you-uppo, most of Priestley's remarks have been right down the U. S. alley. On food: "You can eat yourself sick if you want to, but of course it is very nice to have a parcel of America's noblest produce including perhaps a bottle of rye or bourbon." On parashots: "There we were-ploughman and parson, shepherd and clerk, turning out at night as our forefathers had often done before us, to keep watch and ward over the sleeping hills and fields and homesteads...