Word: highboy
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Dates: during 1926-1926
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...paunch with other people's helpings, he addresses his advances to his hostess, an elderly madam. He lands in the street. . . . Again, his patron tenders him a banquet. He refuses to join in the consumption of bourgeois food and makes his repast on wine from the highboy. His ejection follows a violent attack of temperament during which bottles crash on servants' skulls and the refectory is strewn with pulverized objets...