Word: parcell
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Everything gives the impression of being too carefully and consciously calculated. Moreover, the orchestration is muddy and inflated. There are those, and I am one of them, who dislike Tchaikowski's excessively ballet type of orchestration, his pizzicato and arpeggio-mannerisms. But these are at least part and parcel of his style; they are handled masterfully and in such a way as to become a perfect vehicle for his ideas. But Brahm's true medium is the small lyric. When he ventures into the symphonic form, he loses all proportion. The scoring of the First Symphony and D minor piano...
News Item: "Porters to get flat rate of ten cents per parcel...
...avoid waiting six days for a passenger boat to take him from Guernsey to Alderney (English Channel islands 20 miles apart), a Major L. Palmer mailed himself as a parcel. A buttonhole label announced he was "OHMS"* and paid...
Secretary of State Hull had protested in strongly measured language, got no satisfactory answer. To a note in which he conceded the right of the British to search parcel-post packages at Gibraltar but complained that U. S. ships had been discriminated against, subjected to unreasonable delay, he got no answer at all. Last week, banning the shipment of "articles or materials" by air mail, the U. S. indicated that it thereby removed any further excuse for a repetition of the Bermuda incident...
...expected to sign it, after the Legislature disposed of final technicalities. Fearful of any & all curbs on unions, the State American Federation of Labor fought this one. So did A. Philip Randolph, Negro president of the Pull man Porters' Union, who sagely warned: "The Negro workers are part & parcel of all workers . . . and they cannot hope to gain equality within trade unions by legis lation." More militant Negroes hardly expected that the law would be effectively enforced, valued the step chiefly because it put union inequality on the public record...