Word: applejack
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...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...
...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...