The bride's mother, Carole, wore a lovely outfit by Catherine Walker, an aristocrat-approved designer; she did not chew gum, as she was said to have done once when she appeared in public at a royal event, or exhibit déclassé tendencies of any kind.
But she did once say when considering an afterlife: "God forbid that I should run into him again".
But it has led to all kinds of trouble — as it did once again this month, when the Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology was awarded to a dead man.
She might even stop for breath, as she did once or twice when we met for coffee this month, though don't count on it.
As Rosie Perez did once almost basically say, "Sometimes when you lose, you really win".
I did once see him being mean, when he turned up with Cocteau and all the hangers-on for dinner after a bullfight.
President Bill Clinton always recognised that fiscal responsibility was progressive – as did Gordon Brown, once, when he said: "Losing control of public spending doesn't help the poor.
(He always did. Once, when he was on a United Nations famine-inspection tour in Africa, he greeted a mother with a dying baby in her arms by telling her what a lovely child she had).
At Tuesday night's performance at TheaterWorks in Hartford, the audience did laugh once, when a man recalled having taught himself embroidery in prison.
Indeed, the house nearly did fall once, when Felix, desperate for more space for the ever-increasing amount of books and music, fitted up the loft for more of the same.
