Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have the last laugh on his unseen tormentor, who will gain the family fortune only if Fairfax dies a bachelor. The Lieutenant of the Tower (David Magill), another Fairfax fan, agrees to find him a woman who will marry him before his execution in exchange for a hundred crown dower. The woman in question is is Elsie Maynard (Michelle French), a traveling minstrelette who does the country fair circuit with jestering partner Jack Point (Peter F. Miller). Point hopes someday to marry Elsie, but agrees to the scheme after hearing the clink of the hundred crowns...
...looks and gentlemanly heroic manner to impress every man and enrapture any woman who crosses his path. In this world, marriages are contracted via the forces of blackmail, not true love, and the essential work of all involved--seeing to the imprisonment, torture and execution of prisoners of the crown--is never questioned...
Victories over Cornell, Yale and Dartmouth later this season would assure Harvard--winners of 30 of its last 32 league games--of the crown and would put it in the running for a possible berth in the NCAA tournament...
...Crimson did win an Ivy League title, but clinching the crown midway through the season was neither surprising or particularly exhilerating--the icemen had taken the last four as well and too many other challenges lay ahead...
...title, no laurels, no crown. Just an armful of silver platters...