Just before his sudden death, in the Cornwall house full of his children and grandchildren, he pledges "love... Just love" to his beloved daughter, who describes this as a "perfect ending" – for her, though not for her brother David.
But since I started playing competitively and reporting on Scrabble 15 years ago, I've shaken hands with a moving walkway of Hasbro executives, all of whom have pledged love for and commitment to the game.
But the stories have addled his wits: he mistakes inns for enchanted castles, and peasant girls for beautiful princesses; he confuses windmills with giants and dreams up a beautiful damsel - Dulcinea - to whom he has pledged love and fidelity.
There is probably nothing as ecstatic and overwhelming as falling in love; pledging your love together before family and friends carries its own euphoria; holding your new baby is your arms is another of life's highs... all family moments.
Siegfried and Brünnhilde appear, pledging their love.
Pledging their love, the two flee from Hunding's house before he awakes.
Alvin follows that with "Johnny Ace Is Dead," a portrait of the famous R. & B. star ("Pledging My Love"), who shot himself on Christmas Day, 1954, while playing with a gun.
"Is this really happening?" an emotional Ms. Winslet said in accepting her second award, pledging true love for her co-star, Leonardo DiCaprio.
The Royal Ballet's Marianela Nuñez is married to her fellow principal dancer, Thiago Soares, but in the most romantic performance of hers that I've seen, she was pledging her love to Carlos Acosta.
When contemporary teen pop emerged in the late 90's, it was led by former Mouseketeers crooning slow-churning, high-saccharine ballads pledging everlasting love for the girls and submissive devotion for the boys.
