He had a car with a rumble seat and money so plentiful he could afford restaurants with potted palms where waiters wore tuxedos and live musicians played for diners foxtrotting between courses.
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James Joyce's 1939 book " Finnegans Wake " has the character Shem the Penman infested with " foxtrotting fleas, the lieabed lice, . . . bats in his belfry ".