Be-sashed

The gains are great—yet I still remember with delight and awe the shouts of “Wonderful! Counsellor!” from the huge, sweating enthusiastic, be-sashed mass of humanity that made up the Royal Choral Society of my youth, and will be desolate if I never hear again Mozart’s strange and wonderful (though dramatically inappropriate) counterpoints to “The people that walked in darkness.”

Just how badly do you want your Thin Mints? Because if you think some little girl in green — pigtailed, bereted and be-sashed — is going to deliver them to your front door, you may be in for a very long wait.

It’s about the fifth-most important beauty pageant in the country, my be-sashed seatmate informs me.