Word: varsoviana
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Tall, lean, moustachioed and permanently suntanned, Hilton had the courtly manner of a Spanish grandee. "Connie" was a man who loved ballroom dancing and opened almost all new Hilton hotels by taking to the empty dance floor with an attractive partner to perform an obscure European dance, the Varsoviana, which he regarded as a good-luck ritual...
...permanently suntanned face. He escorts a pretty girl-usually a new one each time-to the center of the ballroom floor. Then, to the slow, stately strains of the violins, they point their feet, bow, turn about and sweep elegantly into an unfamiliar step. The dance is the courtly Varsoviana, brought to America from the palaces of Europe by Mexico's Emperor Maximilian; the man who puts his foot out so skillfully is Hotelman Conrad Nicholson Hilton, who calls the tune for the $293 million Hilton Hotel chain. Hilton has adopted the obscure Varsoviana as a ceremonial dance...
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