Word: waltzing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...heart by singing La-calle's Amapola, is soon a popular hit below stairs, where the servants pool their savings to buy her a party dress and silver slippers so that she can go to the great ball. There unknown Connie captures the crowd by caroling a Strauss waltz. Her handsome, horsy young host (Robert Stack) canters over and, while cinemaddicts hold their breath, gives Deanna Durbin her first kiss, which had to be shot twelve times before it was considered impeccable enough to meet the exacting standards of Durbin fans...
...bouquet of roses presented to her at the banquet, a menu signed by Jim Farley, a waltz with an unknown postmaster. "Our badges were our introduction," she explained. "I love to dance-the waltz glide, not this hopping around." Then back she went to her post office on the Eastern Shore, for bi-monthly stocktaking...
...sirs huffed that U. S. jazz and crooners had sapped the grand traditions of martial music. Said they: "The whole difference [between 1914 and now] is that then we called men 'lads' and now we call lads 'men.' . . . Little Sir Echo is in waltz time, and no army ever waltzed its way to victory...
There was a long pause, as listeners twirled their dials and wondered if their radios had gone dead. Then the strains of a Strauss waltz ended the silence...
...heroines or romance. They laughed at her. Privately they called her "the little beast." Even William liked to regale her with his old love affairs. Soon Caroline had a lover, Sir Godfrey Webster, coarse, handsome and ostracized. But Sir Godfrey called it off at the time a new waltz, Ach du lieber Augustin, was sweeping England and a jam of carriages was bearing invitations to the door of a young Lord who had just published a book called Childe Harold...