Word: applejack
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...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...
Along the stormy and rockbound coast, through the woods of New England, the Yankees settle themselves for the rigours of winter, prepare to face the months of isolation when roads will be impassable, consoled with a fresh supply of applejack and illustrated catalogues. On the Boston Common moochers assure one another that "Rosafult" will not let them starve. In Cambridge there are hour examinations...
...drums, saws, tin cans, shotguns, "horse fiddles" (two rails gratin.tr together), "devil's fiddles" (a plank run through a box), "skonk" (conch) shells and corn-shellers filled with small stones The bride & groom are expected to listen patiently for a bit, then give the cothumpers plenty of cigars, applejack, gin whiskey or beer. If they do not, or if they are definitely disliked by the cowthumpers. the noise goes on. If the couple decline to show themselves, the crowd may cover their chimney and smoke them...
...Francisco exulted last week, a town in New Jersey mourned. That town was Lakewood (pop. 5,000). Jewish winter resort, known for good Jersey applejack, for the beer at its Elks Club, for John D. Rockefeller's estate there (which he seldom uses). Lakewood was "town" for the Lakehurst Naval Air Station five miles away. It thrived on the station's $500,000 annual payroll, and on the visitations of newshawks and sightseers, all of which are now lost to Sunnyvale. Lakewood hoped that the evil day might be deferred by luring the Macon to Lakehurst for inspection...
...mostly sits, or "goes singin' like the mornin' stars for joy that he was made." And there is, too, in New Hampshire a wine of the country that used to be made from Russets, but now is ground from Baldwins. Boys at college distil it and call it applejack, but the farmers of New Hampshire keep it in a 50-gallon keg and call it cider. It does not burn like Rhum, it does not bite like Gin, it does not scrape like Scotch. It softens the rough edges, it burnishes the afterglow, and it catches a wind tossed echo...