Word: waltzing
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...cigarettes, which you know is not at all comme il faut, and I don't see how you ever came to make a Yale graduate a proctor. His room, of course, is right above mine, and the worst of it is that he is trying to learn the new waltz. You giddy devotees of Terpsichore of course know what that is, and so you'll pardon me if I don't go into details. Anyway, he is just learning it, and he does raise the most tremendous racket - "racket," by the way, is not slang, as it has survived...
...there is also a nearly total absence of that spontaneity, that musical humor and sparkling freshness, which made 'Die Fledermaus' so delightful. The score contains various pretty numbers, but they are all more or less the product of labor rather than of inspiration. The only exception is the waltz with which the second act closes, a most felicitous effort even for Strauss, though not even in this number does he approach the level of excellence which occurs at the same point in 'Die Fledermaus...
...astounding information reaches us that under the auspices of the Prince of Wales a return is being made in England to the use of the deux temps waltz in place of the trois temps...
...this fuss of him for? I don't care one speck about seeing him, but I know some of the girls are just crazy to. I've seen his picture, and think he's horrid ugly. He looks like a Yale senior does when he asks you to waltz - sort of frightened and remorseful. But I'm just going to tell you of something that happened at the theatre the other evening. I went with my Cousin Harry (he's my second cousin), and a great, big, horrid man leaned over and asked me if I wouldn't take...
...cigarette, and I'll give you an introduction to the whole of them" (he is not always particular about his rhetoric). I begged to be let off from such an ordeal, but expressed a desire to have him stop smoking and introduce me to his cousin before the next waltz. "All in due time, Hal, all in due time; but it's no use now. That chap talking with her is trying to make a rush there, and you may depend upon it she's snapped up for the next. He's from Yale, and his name is Fenson...