Crossword-Solution: HYAL 4 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

The only good meals they get is when they descend upon us, like to-night." "And the Hindoo, there--who's he?" "That's Dar Hyal.

And, oh, if you encounter our sages more intimately, a word of warning, especially if the encounter be in the stag room: Dar Hyal is a total abstainer; Theodore Malken can get poetically drunk, and usually does, on one cocktail; Aaron Hancock is an expert wine-bibber; and Terrence McFane, knowing little of one drink from another, and caring less, can put ninety-nine men out of a hundred under the table and go right on lucidly expounding epicurean anarchy." One thing Graham noted as the dinner proceeded.

Wombold by Dar Hyal, who proceeded to proclaim Asia for the Asiatics and California for the Californians.

And Dar Hyal succumbed, flinging Asia and the Asiatics to the winds, along with his arms and legs, as he weirdly parodied the tango in what he declared to be the "blastic" culmination of modern dancing.

But I don't know with what I'll begin." Dar Hyal joined the three sages in seating Paula at the concert grand which, Graham decided, was none too great for the great room.