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Since the repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment McKesson & Robbins, Inc. has been engaged in the distribution of wines and liquors on a nationwide scale. Since its earliest connection with this business, the policy of the Company has been to comply strictly with the spirit as well as the letter of every regulatory and taxing measure. In accordance with this policy, as soon as it became apparent to the executive officials of the company that there were irregularities in the collection of Colorado State liquor taxes, the Company communicated with the Governor of Colorado placing in his hands...
...easy to be jocose in dealing with our ancestors. But the biographer who is persistently jocose is more likely to cheapen himself than entertain his readers. "Count Rumford of Massachusetts" is the life of a brilliant and eccentric cosmopolitan figure in eighteenth century politics, science, and society. Yet Mr. Thompson seems far more bent in his book on playfully pointing out the quaint ways of our forebears in that remote age than on giving us a true picture of his subject. Perhaps no one else who has ever really read a book printed before 1800 has been amused...
...Eighteenth Century glass is just as interesting in its way and serves as a good contrast to the modern work. The old glass is mainly from the factories of Steigel and Wistarburg, two pioneers in the art of American glass blowing, who worked in the middle of the eighteenth century...
...American collegiate buildings clearly reveal the fierceness of the fight--from the first halls of the Eighteenth Century to the "University of the Future" existing only in the dreams...
Brighton was merely a small health resort when George of Wales made it his summer court. Eighteenth Century physicians commonly prescribed large quantities of mineral water for all ailments; at Brighton invalids dosed themselves accordingly and discovered the pleasures of bathing almost by accident. By the time Prince George arrived, bathing had become popular, although noblemen were still usually so dirty that no sensitive person could stay long in a crowd of them. At Brighton the young prince found congenial companions-most of them enemies of his father-and with them raced horses, chased girls, picked quarrels, went shooting...