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  • ` ` I'll tell you, though, boys, what I did hear: George's missus went into the gents 'wear department at Parcher's to buy him some collars, and before she could give his neck-size the clerk slips her some thirteens.

    Babbitt 1922

  • I've got just twenty minutes to get to May Parcher's -- the crowd meets there, and they're goin 'to take the trolley in front the Parchers' at exactly a quarter after 'leven.

    Seventeen 1915

  • I've got just twenty minutes to get to May Parcher's -- the crowd meets there, and they're goin 'to take the trolley in front the Parchers' at exactly a quarter after 'leven.

    Seventeen A Tale of Youth and Summer Time and the Baxter Family Especially William Booth Tarkington 1907

  • "I'll tell you, though, boys, what I did hear: George's missus went into the gents 'wear department at Parcher's to buy him some collars, and before she could give his neck-size the clerk slips her some thirteens.

    Babbitt Sinclair Lewis 1918

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