Word: anson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Legal Knight. The opening situation is intriguing enough. Anson Page, the lawyer hero, is living quietly in Manhattan with an apartment too expensive and a wife too intelligent for his own good. He has finally worked up to a kind of wary chumminess with the senior partner of his law firm, and has almost domesticated his fear of failure (sometimes, though, the beast still growls dangerously from the chimney corner). This somewhat nervous idyl is broken by a man Anson Page has never even met-a great and aging American novelist called Garvin Wales, literary master of Southern sordidness...
...bottom of this seemingly fantastic accusation? A lawyer, of course. Which lawyer? Well-it happens that the great novelist and his dragon of a wife live on a small island near Anson Page's home town of Pompey's Head. That makes Page the obvious legal knight for the dangerous mission...
...Regular Fellow. Fisher can be adamant. Most notable example: his stand against church marriage of the divorced, whether the "innocent party" or not. When, in 1950, the then Queen's niece, Lady Anson, innocent party in a divorce, was to marry Prince George of Denmark. Fisher ordered the clergyman who was to have performed the ceremony not to do so, also advised the Queen not to attend. The wedding was performed by a Danish Lutheran minister while the Queen discreetly cooled her heels in a drawing room...
Checking Account. In Ada, Ohio, after National Bank President Anson Gear was held up at gun point while thieves robbed his bank, the board of directors conducted a special audit to determine the losses ($7,037), then filed charges that President Gear had embezzled $17,500 over the past eight years...
...Anson, manager of the Chicago Cubs nearly 75 years ago, once said, "The team that makes the fewest mistakes wins the most games." If Anson's statement holds true, the freshman baseball team will not only win its fifth game of the year tomorrow at M.I.T. against the Tech freshmen, but should win almost all its games in the rest of the season...