Word: landaulet
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...Measure, apart from which House Party resembles A Comedy of Errors. To the antediluvian Ames mansion at Pruitt's Landing, an "unspoiled" Long Island town, repairs the following partial cast of characters, some Ameses and some not: a superannuated dandy who is chauffeured about in a Hotchkiss landaulet; a Manhattan model; a frustrated young architect who works for Vahan Rabadab Associates ("All Rabadab buildings looked like banks of file cabinets with the drawers open"); a proletarian scowler ("No thanks, I don't usually bathe until Saturday night"); a divorcee with an "I'm-a-dangerous-woman voice...
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