Word: parcelled
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...equal to its rental value would be imposed on all land not immediately occupied by its owner. Such a levy would deprive absentee landlords of their rent. Land would tend to revert to the State which would parcel it out among workers and farmers...
Mexico. I sent the rug to Albuquerque and have the receipt of the postmaster there that the parcel was delivered all right...
...Congress of Vienna was never very far from reality. The Treaty of Paris had concluded peace in May 1814, incidentally mentioning a general rendezvous two months later in Vienna, to parcel out Napoleon's empire. No official summons was ever issued but in two months nearly every major European diplomat was in Vienna. Most of them might as well have been cinemactors; only five nations had anything to say: victorious Russia, Prussia, Austria, England and defeated France. They dealt behind doors, not in open Congress, through shrewd diplomats, not bemedaled clotheshorses. Metternich, the Tsar, and France's Talleyrand...
...winds of the modern orchestra shrill stridently like primitive chirimias. He has added swishing gourds to the conventional percussives. But most of H. P.'s music was too obtrusively harsh and loud for listeners on first hearing to detect the Indian tunes which he claims to be part & parcel of his work. It costs Mary Louise Curtis Bok a tidy sum to finance the Philadelphia Grand Opera Company's carefully prepared productions. When Stokowski conducts, the bills are still higher because he likes to use the full Philadelphia Orchestra. But Stokowski asked nothing for his tense, vital leadership...
...Passed five bills designed to increase postal revenues by $11,750,000 per year by upping registered mail fees, C. O. D. fees, domestic money order fees, opening parcel post to publications in bulk and charging publishers a second-class entry...