Word: velveteen
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...They had these velveteen seats at the [Wang] last night,” Tweedy said at one point. “And so I was like, ‘Hey man, I’ve got a jacket made of that stuff...
...most expensive item was a faded black velveteen couch...
...floor of the ballroom tilts now and again--fore to aft, sometimes port to starboard. But the steps of the dancers remain steady. A diminutive 92-year-old dowager, resplendent in her pink ball gown, sparkling jewelry and a blond bouffant hairdo topped with a black velveteen bow, smiles on the arm of her young officer escort as he leads her through the traditional paces of the Gay Gordons. They are surrounded by a swirl of tuxedoes, taffeta and tiaras--a time warp on the water aboard the grandest dame of them all, the British ocean liner Queen Elizabeth...
...wake up, I thank the Lord I'm Welsh." The other verses go, "Deffrwch Cymry cysglyd gwlad y g,n" --which could be an elaboration on said religio-nationalistic gratitude, or, you know, something else altogether. Either way, the Welsh group is bent on going international, and in that velveteen, strangely alien way that European groups have of taking over...
Those who stayed until the fair's close saw one of Harvard's History and Literature tutors, Edward L. Widmer '84, singing to a crowd of thousands in a wig, velveteen britches and a beauty mark, with his band, "The Upper Crust...