Word: applejack
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...Morris band provided a couple of entertaining exceptions: "The Applejack" had the saxes booming out thunderous elephant farts, and "Anytime, Anyplace, Anywhere" featured a piercing vocal by Little Laurie Tate that suggested Butterfly McQueen attempting a soul tune while having her hand hammered. But the Atlantic oeuvre was more notable for good intentions than radical R&B, let alone crossover pop-rock...
...preserve public confidence. And, after an initial orgy of gloating in the press, public reaction swung sharply to Whitney's side, and began to see a stoic martyr where there was really only a self-deluded man who believed--until the last minute his world collapsed--that Jersey Lightning applejack would sweep the nation and make his enormous investment in applejack distilleries pay off. These two elements--an unthinking crossing of the line between the legal and the illegal in the search for solvency, and a never-ending faith in speculation--are what make Whitney a prototype of American financiers...
...Vermont, a town which will probably satisfy your expectations of what Robert Frost's home town should look like, You find little more than a post office, a phone booth and a combination gas station and general store dealing in two-for-a-penny-candy, dusty bottles of aspirin, applejack, Vermont cheese (kept under the moldy wooden bowl, and cheap), woolen socks, fishing tackle, and peanuts from a chipped enamel peanut roaster apparently left over from the Big-Top Circus days...
...fraternity system but eventually joined Psi Upsilon, wielded a fire hose and earned a black eye during a battle between his sophomore class and freshmen, ran and lost for president of the junior class. In the Rockefeller tradition he also taught Sunday school, abstained from smoking and the traditional applejack parties in White River Junction and made Phi Beta Kappa as his father had at Brown...
...skill with wills and his eye for beauty. He left behind, after his death in 1939, a dilly of a will to prove both points of pride. Not counting 235 bottles of scotch, 165 bottles of champagne, 15 gallons of pure alcohol and one bottle "of Howard County applejack (all of which went down the drain to avoid tax complications), he left a round $900,000 to his alma mater, Johns Hopkins University, to build Shriver Hall of materials "the best obtainable in the world." And he tied his bequest down with stipulations that made it to his confreres...