Word: ciders
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...Shenandoah Valley, where snow fell last fortnight, was bright last week with drifts of apple blossoms. Governor Harry Flood Byrd, himself a big cider, applesauce and vinegar producer, flew by blimp from Richmond to Winchester to crown the queen of the valley's blossom festival, Miss Mary Wise Boxley of Roanoke. It was a lyric occasion. Visitors waxed ecstatic over the scenery, the verdure, the marching schoolchildren. Newsgatherers tasted real Virginia applejack. None had a more gladsome time than his suave and swarthy excellency, Mahmoud Samy Pasha, Egyptian Minister to the U. S., who, with Mme. Samy, had been...
...power of much of the daily American press may be overexaggerated. Admitting the influence of a few crusading editors in the large cities and of a few local demagogues, it is doubtful if the average voter is swayed by his breakfasttable reading more than by red fire and hard cider. Constructive editorial opinion and advice on polities, at least those of national import, is offered by a minority of printed sheets. Dissection of a candidate or of an issue is left largely to the weekly magazines...
...wood, a few bolts, a spring, a piece of aluminum shaped like a huge spoon. It was hailed last week at the Nebraska Agricultural College as a potential revolution in the farming world. It will enable the tiller of the soil to go to the cinema or drink cider or sleep, while his fields are being plowed. It will soon be put on the market at a cost of a few dollars. It is the invention of F. L. Zybach of Grand Island...
...stood, saw their leader broken by struggle and paralysis; heard a man they did not admire take the oath of office of President of the U. S. Through their minds must have flashed memories of the glorious days of 1913, when the party of freckle-faced Jefferso and hard-cider Jackson came back to power. Happy days. . . . Josephus Daniels laughing in the first meeting of the Cabinet "Isn't it great! Isn't it wonderful...
...held. He ruled: "Possession of grape juice for home use . . . becomes unlawful . . . whenever the liquid becomes intoxicating, whether through natural fermentation or otherwise." Thus he sternly interpreted the paragraph of the Volstead Act that states that a householder needs no permit and cannot be punished for manufacturing "non-intoxicating cider and fruit juices exclusively for use in his own home." The law, purposely or otherwise, ignored the obvious fact that cider becomes hard, fruit juices gather alcoholic strength in time; Judge Hand added what the law had forgotten. Many Wets chuckled, said Dry-voting farmers might change their tune under...