Word: applejack
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...High point for ineptitude: a Mississippi Negro woman plaintively singing a "Letter to the President" in which she reminds him that before the elections she, as a sharecropper, was promised many good things, including "a barrel of applejack...
...amiable president of the Waldorf and his man Oscar. Neatly they spiked their problem with a startling innovation ? a U. S. menu U. S. cooked. Mr. Boomer led off with Cape Cods baked in the shell, New Orleans gumbo and Maryland terrapin. His bird was Chesapeake mallard. Frozen applejack preceded Virginia ham and autumn salad which were topped off with soufflé Lugol and coffee...
Unhappy Mr. Miller was able to discern one ray of light. That was the Widows' & Widowers' Convention at Atlantic City over the weekend. Said he, bravely: "I'll get a chance to look over the seven or eight hundred other women and we'll have applejack and peanuts...
...ladies or a glimpse of Shirley Temple. In Hide-Out, Lucky Wilson (Robert Montgomery) is an even better example of the new school ne'er-do-well. All that it requires to transform him from a night-club chiseler to gentleman farmer is a whiff of Dutchess County applejack and five reels of Mau reen O'Sullivan...
...among them but he saw no excess." After this addition was gone, still another pint was secured, making the total for the three boys in the hours between noon and three or four o'clock at least two quarts of hard cider, probably a modification of the modern applejack, and three pints of rum. From here the party must have continued from room to room, for there is the notable addition of some townsmen and several young ladies during the course of the evening...