Word: cuspidor
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...constant danger of being unable to keep his seat on a barstool, or is busy escaping the hot clutches of girl friends and trollops. Through it all, Baxter permits the reader to share his every picayune thought and gesture, e.g., "He dropped the match. It fell-thhhh-into the cuspidor...
...stream-of-consciousness writing. Baxter Bernstein not only recalls the horde of little streamlets that bubbled up in the master's wake but proves once & for all that though the great original is still alive and glowing, its imitations are only fit to be dropped thhhh into the cuspidor...
...splash cuspidor, shaped so as to prevent ricocheting onto rugs...
streaming their shattering saliva into the turbulent cuspidor curving ahead...
...built in 1884, the Murray Hill was the very last word in elegance, from the grey marble grand staircase to the dazzlingly newfangled electric lights that gleamed on the first two floors. There was a fireplace in every living room, a gilded chamber pot under every bed, a brass cuspidor in every room. The washstands were marble, with brass legs; many a wall was hung with imitation Fragonards and Watteaus. The largest and best suite was set aside for Grover Cleveland. When Cleveland went to the White House in March 1885, the food for the inaugural ball was rushed...