Word: applejack
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Some of Marguerite Robert' aphorisms are priceless, and others seem to have been disinterred from the grave of Oscar Wilde. Concerning scenes, the first and last are too long, the others good; the scene where the two starts get slightly squiffed on applejack and take down their hair is excellent, likewise the one in which Miss Chatterton finds that the new plumbing fixtures she has ordered are not the color she expected...
...winter of 1937-38 a frightened man named Richard Whitney tried to peg the stock of Distilled Liquors Corp. at 9. He failed and went to jail. Last week, having totted up its third consecutive deficit, $74,149 in 1938, Distilled Liquors (applejack, bourbon, rye) announced it was going to expand into the importing business (16 varieties of wine, three whiskies). Its stock...
...other loans from friends, tided Richard Whitney over until 1933. About that time, having taken fliers in a lot of such pip-squeak ventures as Florida fertilizer plants, Dick Whitney took the fatal flier of his life: He got into Distilled Liquors Corp. which bought a plant for making applejack. The public eagerly took the stock he offered, but did not take to the applejack. Needing funds to promote the company, Dick Whitney got large loans against his Distilled Liquors stock, which once sold as high as $45 a share. When the price began falling...
...Before New Jersey Legislators last week was a bill to reduce the tax on distilled applejack. Reason: consumption of famed Jersey ''light-nins" has slipped...
...about his character to remember is that he is a Norman, a farmer's son and a dirt farmer himself when he has the opportunity. The little farm near Lisieux which belonged to his father, he now owns and operates with the proceeds of his painting, distilling a fine applejack and stabling twelve cows in his barns. The machine age always fascinated him because it is so different from the life he knows best. As an art student in Paris he experimented briefly with Braque, Picasso and the other cubists but did not like their dependence on the fuzzy technique...