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...breakdown of the statistics of the game show the Crimson gained 200 yards and one date with a Wellesleyite rushing. The passing attack of the junior misses failed in the heat, and the scoring laurels clearly went to a collection of non-collegiate rooters who stole the applejack in the water bucket early in the last period...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bang That Ball, Brother, or How to Run a Hockey-Shoppe | 10/28/1946 | See Source »

...account of that's the way Europeans eat, were impressed on the trainees. One hopeless jackass got tortured and killed later on in the movie because he slipped up on this very detail. Ladd, however, doesn't make any mistakes, and is the one member of the team "Applejack," sent to France to destroy a key railroad tunnel and to pick up sundry vital information, who comes out alive...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 10/7/1946 | See Source »

Among those killed by the gestape are Geraldine Fitzgerald, who looks like Joan Crawford, talks like Katharine Hepburn, and gives a restrained and sound performance. As the only woman member of "Applejack" she performs many indispensable tasks, such as working her wiles on German colonels, with admirable results. In fact, her function in the picture is totally professional except for a few mildly affectionate scenes with Ladd squeezed in between auto chases and gun fights...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 10/7/1946 | See Source »

Land of Plenty. In the first place the people of this part of France are not hungry-far from it. This province is rich in milk, butter, cheese, eggs, beef, veal, cider, applejack and horseflesh. The countrymen are sturdy and long-lived. The women are as rosy-cheeked as the apples they pick, the children plump as pumpkins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Facts from Normandy | 6/26/1944 | See Source »

...hundred years ago, one of the first credit correspondents in the U.S. reported to the Mercantile Agency that Peddler James Sampson "drinks two glasses of cider brandy [applejack], plain, every morning and evening-never more; has lost a large double tooth on lower jaw, back, second from throat on left side; has a scar an inch long on his left leg kneepan; cause: cut himself with a hatchet when only three years old." Credit sleuths have been weighing financial responsibility with the most intimate details of a man's personal life ever since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Little FBI | 1/4/1943 | See Source »

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