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Lord and Emsworth
Bertie is also acquainted with Lord Emsworth, another of Wodehouse's best-known characters, and mentions having visited Blandings Castle.
Holloway appeared for the first time in a major British television series in the BBC's 1967 adaptation of P. G. Wodehouse's Blandings Castle stories, playing Beach, the butler, to Ralph Richardson's Lord Emsworth.
In the 1960s Richardson played Lord Emsworth on BBC television in dramatisations of P. G. Wodehouse's Blandings Castle stories, with his real-life wife Meriel Forbes playing his domineering sister Connie, and his friend Stanley Holloway as his butler Beach.
Blandings Castle is a recurring fictional location in the stories of British comic writer P. G. Wodehouse, being the seat of Lord Emsworth ( Clarence Threepwood, 9th Earl of Emsworth ), home to many of his family, and setting for numerous tales and adventures, written between 1915 and 1975.
Clarence Threepwood, 9th Earl of Emsworth, or Lord Emsworth, is a recurring fictional character in the Blandings stories by British comic writer P. G. Wodehouse.
Wodehouse frequently named his characters after places with which he was familiar, and Lord Emsworth takes his name from the Hampshire town of Emsworth, where Wodehouse spent some time in the 1890s ; he first went there in 1903, at the invitation of his friend Herbert Westbrook, and later took a lease on a house there called " Threepwood Cottage ", which name he used as Lord Emsworth's family name.
Some of the many characters who are named after places in the vicinity of Emsworth include Lord Emsworth's heir, Viscount Bosham, Lady Anne Warblington, Lord Stockheath, the Duchess of Havant ( in A Gentleman of Leisure ), and Lord Arthur Hayling ( in The Prince and Betty ).
The name " Lord Emsworth " first appears in Wodehouse's works as a passing mention in a short called " The Matrimonial Sweepstakes ", a version of " The Good Angel " printed in Cosmopolitan in the U. S. in February 1910.
Lord Emsworth is consistently presented just shy of sixty ; since Wodehouse wrote about him for over half a century, in novels more or less set in the present, this means that his dates vary depending on what one is reading.
Lord Emsworth has ten sisters ( one deceased ), two brothers ( one deceased ), two sons, at least one daughter, and many in-laws – for a full list of his family members, see the Threepwood family list.
In " Lord Emsworth Acts for the Best ", he grows a rather ragged beard, little realising the peril this puts his castle in, but soon realises that it is better to remove it.
Lord Emsworth plays some part in all the novels and short stories in the Blandings canon.
* Horace Hodges played Lord Emsworth in a 1933 silent film adaptation of Summer Lightning
* Ralph Richardson played him in adaptations of six Blandings shorts, made by the BBC and broadcast in 1967 ( only the first, adapted from the short " Lord Emsworth and the Girl Friend ", still remains in the BBC archives ).
* Richard Vernon portrayed Lord Emsworth in BBC Radio 4 adaptations from the 1960s to the 1980s, including series based on Galahad at Blandings and the Blandings short stories.
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Lord and Girl
Around the same time Lord and Sproxton made their first foray into adult animation with the shorts Down and Out and Confessions of a Foyer Girl, entries in the BBC's Animated Conversations series using real-life conversations as soundtracks.
Standin ' On The Corner Park is a park featuring murals depicting the famous " Girl my Lord in a flatbed Ford ".
He wrote much background and theme music for motion pictures, including the films Sex and the Single Girl, How to Murder Your Wife ( 1965 ), Synanon, Boeing Boeing ( 1965 ), Lord Love a Duck ( 1966 ), Duel at Diablo ( 1966 ), The Odd Couple ( 1968 ), Barefoot in the Park ( 1967 ) and Harlow ( 1965 ), for which he received two Grammy nominations for the song " Girl Talk ".
Among these are statues of Lord Stanley, poet Robert Burns, Olympic runner Harry Jerome, and President Harding ; plaques commemorating the wreck of the SS Beaver, the sinking of the Chehalis ( a tugboat that collided with the MV Princess Victoria off Stanley Park ), Pauline Johnson ’ s burial site, and the Salvation Army ; a replica of the RMS Empress of Japan figurehead ; a bronze statue of a Girl in a Wetsuit by Elek Imredy ; and a timber-and-stump archway that replaced the original Lumbermen ’ s Arch built by lumber workers immediately west of the Aquarium is accompanied by a planting of Japanese maple and flowering cherry and other plants from Japan.
In his book " Girl Guiding ," Lord Baden-Powell ( 1918 ) wrote:
The eight-level mall has over 100 shops, including Macy's ( formerly a branch of the renowned Marshall Field's ), the flagship American Girl store ( occupying the former Lord & Taylor which closed in March 2007 ), a live theatre, and several restaurants, arranged around a chrome-and-glass atrium with glass elevators.
Also: Michael Kurland's 1969 novel The Unicorn Girl features protagonists who jump into a series of alternate timelines — and one of the timelines they land in is Lord Darcy's.
However, while several minor characters from the Lord Darcy series appear in The Unicorn Girl, neither Lord Darcy nor Sean are featured.
* ( 1938 ) " Boystown ", " Broadway Serenade ", " The First Hundred Years ", " The Girl Downstairs ", " Happily Buried " ( short feature ), " The Hardys Ride High ", " Honolulu ", " Let Freedom Ring ", " Lord Jeff ", " The Magician's Daughter " ( short feature ), " Marie Antoinette ", " Nuts and Bolts " ( short feature ), " Our Gang Follies " ( short feature ), " Paradise for Three ", " Snow Gets in Your Eyes " ( short feature ), " Sweethearts ", " Three Comrades ", " The Toy Wife ", " Vacation from Love "
* ( 1938 ) Broadway Serenade, The First Hundred Years, The Girl Downstairs, Happily Buried ( short feature ), The Hardys Ride High, Honolulu, Let Freedom Ring, Lord Jeff, The Magician's Daughter ( short feature ), Marie Antoinette, Nuts and Bolts ( short feature ), Our Gang Follies ( short feature ), Paradise for Three, Snow Gets in Your Eyes ( short feature ), Sweethearts, Three Comrades, The Toy Wife, Vacation from Love
Films with débutante themes include Metropolitan, Whit Stillman's début feature film, a comedy of manners set during the deb season in Manhattan, and What a Girl Wants, a 2003 film in which Amanda Bynes plays an American teen whose estranged father is a British Lord, and who is presented at a coming out party after being reunited with her mother.
Lavi's film appearances include Vincente Minnelli's Two Weeks in Another Town ( 1962 ), Mario Bava's gothic classic La Frusta e il corpo, aka The Whip and the Body ( 1963 ), the role of The Girl in Lord Jim and the first Matt Helm film, The Silencers ( 1966 ), opposite Dean Martin.
The first single, J ' Aime featuring rapper Lord Kossity and Sexy Girl have been available online since 26 March 2007.
The label's most successful act commercially was West German based band Boney M. with million-selling hits like " Rivers of Babylon ", " Brown Girl in the Ring " and " Mary's Boy Child / Oh My Lord ".
Unfortunately the master tapes of all but the first part (" Lord Emsworth and the Girl Friend "), were wiped, and no known copies exist.
Rosie M. Banks is a fictional romance novelist, the author of works such as: All for Love ; A Red, Red Summer Rose ; Madcap Myrtle ; Only a Factory Girl ; The Courtship of Lord Strathmorlick ; Mervyn Keene, Clubman ; ' Twas Once in May ; By Honour Bound ; and A Kiss at Twilight.
Moffat also alludes to this metaphor in " The Girl in the Fireplace " with the line " There comes a time, Time Lord, when every lonely little boy must learn how to dance.
* " Lord Emsworth and the Girl Friend " ( Blandings Castle and Elsewhere, 1935 )
Bingo reports to Bertie three days later that the scheme appears to be working, as he has finished reading All for Love, A Red, Red Summer Rose, Madcap Myrtle, Only a Factory Girl, and half of The Courtship of Lord Strathmorick.
* In the 2003 film What a Girl Wants, Lord Henry Dashwood invites his new-found daughter Daphne to attend the London Season.
Captain Atom has quit the team because of the incident with Mary from the previous miniseries and sued Maxwell Lord, leading him to attempt to recruit both Power Girl and Guy Gardner to join the team.

Lord and Friend
The Commission heard evidence from Sir Matthew Nathan, Augustine Birrell, Lord Wimborne, Sir Neville Chamberlain ( Inspector-General of the Royal Irish Constabulary ), General Lovick Friend, Major Ivor Price of Military Intelligence and others.
To A Friend and Alfred Lord Tennyson wrote a play The Foresters, or Robin Hood and Maid Marian, which was presented with incidental music by Sir Arthur Sullivan in 1892.
Friend and spiritual heir to Théodore Géricault, Delacroix was also inspired by Lord Byron, with whom he shared a strong identification with the " forces of the sublime ", of nature in often violent action.
He was an authority on the history and practice of parliament and the constitution, and besides the pamphlets already mentioned above was the author of The Case Stated concerning the Judicature of the House of Peers in the Point of Appeals ( 1675 ); The Case Stated of the Jurisdiction of the House of Lords in the point of Impositions ( 1676 ); Letter of a Gentleman to his Friend showing that the Bishops are not to be judges in Parliament in Cases Capital ( 1679 ); Lord Holles his Remains, being a 2nd letter to a Friend concerning the judicature of the Bishops in Parliament ...
After discussions in February and March 1916 with Chief Secretary Augustine Birrell – who did not believe press talk of an armed Irish uprising but wanted more troops as a deterrent-Friend ( Commander-in-Chief, Ireland ) and Wimborne ( Lord Lieutenant ) French said that he could spare only a single cavalry brigade as reinforcements, and later offered an extra reserve infantry brigade, although in the event Friend declined ( 7 April ) to make formal application for the brigade to be sent.
See History of the Indian Administration ( Bentley, 1874 ), edited by Lord Colchester ; Minutes of Evidence taken before the Select Committee on Indian Territories ( June 1852 ); volume i. of the Calcutta Review ; the Friend of India, during the years 1842-1845 ; and John Hope, The House of Scindea: A Sketch ( Longmans, 1863 ).
* S-128-" I Know the Lord Will Make a Way "/" What a Friend We Have in Jesus "-The Caravans
Porbandar is a coastal city in the Indian state of Gujarat, perhaps best known for being the birthplace of Mahatma Gandhi and Sudama ( Friend of Lord Krishna ).
The Indian mythology says its the birthplace of Sudhaama ( Friend of Lord Krishna ), hence its being referred to as Sudhaamapuri or Sudhamapuri.
Friend and confidant to Lord Nelson.
In the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers episode " A Friend in Need ", it is said that Count Dregon was an old rival of Lord Zedd.
He was also involved, with his close and lifelong friend Rudyard Kipling and others, in a daily paper called The Friend started by Lord Roberts in Bloemfontein during the Boer War.
:" Be willing to occupy the lowest place, till the Lord Himself says, ' Friend, come up hither ' ( Luke xiv .).
The Lord AdiKesavaSwamy means ' Foremost Friend '.

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