Word: blackwalnut
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...apartment on a St. Louis side street where the furnishings included an enormous bed of French Empire style, a William & Mary highboy, girandole mirrors, a sofa of beechwood, an upholstered rocker, and "a flock of odds and ends, worthless as antiques, but authentic relics of the ball-fringe, loveseat, blackwalnut, gilded-cattail era of curvature and upholstery. . . ." The strangest quality of Hallelujah is that without specific descriptions Fannie Hurst manages to make this superheated atmosphere quiver with a heavy, middle-aged eroticism. In the St. Louis, Mo. (pop. 816,000) that she describes, the commonplaces of existence - setting the table...
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