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...meal comes with home-cooked bread; it was fresh and sweet. Beverages are coffee, tea, and cider. The cider ($.25) came in a small, three-quarters filled tumbler and wasn't cold enough...
...abounded in good fellowship. Diggers made friends to go drinking with in one of Winchester's 72 pubs, to play soccer with, or to climb the chalk downs above Itchen and watch the sun set (or rise). Pleasures were few and primitive--cigarettes and cider were the staples of digger life. Romance was always available, although usually tenuous, but a handful of digger marriages, generally between male site supervisors and female diggers, have graced the dig's past...
Marquise Milkmaid. This coquette of Versailles, with a pound of powder and pomade on her hair, ended up in moccasins on farms outside Albany, making cider, bending over the family laundry and rising at 3 a.m. to milk the cows. One evening her old friend Talleyrand strolled unannounced into the yard as she prepared a roast. Bringing a touch of Parisian gallantry to wilderness New York, he cried: "Never was a leg of mutton spitted with greater majesty...
About 100 followers and members of the Nonviolent Direct Action Group (NDAG) celebrated with cider and balloons yesterday the opening of a table in front of City Hall to help people find "socially meaningful work...
...many genre scenes of daily life-making cider or bartering a horse-have primarily an historical and anecdotal interest. The best come from an unsentimental brush, free from the snare of an over-appealing subject. A winter scene in Brooklyn, half way between landscape and genre, shows a section of New York City as a country town with a wood pile in the foreground and animals walking in the snow...