Sentence:  Not long ago , I rode down with him in an <WSD>elevator</WSD> in Radio City ; he was talking to himself thirteen to the dozen and smoking two cigars at once , clearly a man in extremis . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  lifting device consisting of a platform or cage that is raised and lowered mechanically in a vertical shaft in order to move people from one floor to another in a building