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...itemized. It would be hard to prove how much of the processing tax had been passed on. To keep the refund melon all to themselves, processors relied upon a legal precedent growing out of Wartime excise taxes. In 1918 Congress passed a law taxing soft drinks 10%. A cider manufacturer paid the tax under protest, maintaining that cider could not properly be called a soft drink. Eventually the courts agreed with him, and the Treasury returned his payments. Then his customers sued him for the extra 10% which he had admittedly added to the price of his cider. The courts...
...have started in Alling's room on December 29, 1676, when Onosephoeus Stanley, presumably a friend but no in Harvard, "came in to his chamber, sometime in the forenoon and so continued there until 3 or 4 or ye clock in ye afternoon. During which time...they had cider fetch(ed) in by ...Ailing... as he judgeth in all about 3 qts. for which they paid 2d a quart." Barnard, the other Freshman, stopped in to see Alling and "found they had some rum, which they had been drinking of." Another pint was soon required and sent for "which...
...artificial scarlet to the cheeks of the decayed beauty. The skies are leaden, every rainy gust sweeps the skeleton branches cleaner, spreading on valley path and craggy niche a Turkey carpet. The airs, acrid with frost and aromatic from the sting of wood-smoke, freeze the new-pressed cider in the half-buried hogshead...
...through his convalescence. Mrs. Diamond was not only immensely good-natured. She was a great joker. In their summer home near Acra she rigged up an electric chair. Her husband was against the idea. In December 1931 Diamond was acquitted of the charge of torturing an up- state cider truckman. He left Mrs. Diamond and some friends who were giving him a party to attend a "press conference" at 1 a. m. The press conference was held in Kiki Roberts' Albany apartment. Shortly after he got back to his own boardinghouse he was shot for the last time...
...much to the spirituous side, nor overstressing the products of the barleycorn. First, beer on draught, and then some good English ale; Bass No. 1 would do admirably. Then stout, not in bottles, but in the wood, and a good variety of the other malt brews; hard cider, with some Perry that is not too strong; rum, whisky, gin, and a few of the cheaper wines...