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Bertie's and Uncle
In " Extricating Young Gussie " Bertie's Uncle Cuthbert is described as the " late head of the family ".
Bertie's Uncle George carries the title of Lord Yaxley.
The title character of " Extricating Young Gussie " is Bertie's cousin Gussie, son of Aunt Julia and Uncle Cuthbert.
Madeline, a friend of Bertie's cousin Angela, is staying at Brinkley Court ( country seat of Aunt Dahlia and Uncle Tom ).
Jeeves ensures Bertie's absence for a few hours, and during that time swiftly ensures that Angela and Tuppy are reconciled, that Gussie and Madeline are engaged, that Anatole withdraws his resignation, and that Uncle Tom writes Aunt Dahlia a check for 500 pounds.
Add the intrigues of Miss Stiffy Byng to win her fiancé the Reverend Stinker Pinker a vicarage, the rivalry of collectors Sir Watkyn Bassett and Bertie's Uncle Tom over an objet d ' art, and the irresistible culinary attractions of American Emerald Stoker, and you have trouble of the sort only Jeeves can mend.

Bertie's and is
Agatha Gregson, née Wooster, later Lady Worplesdon, is a recurring fictional character in the Jeeves stories of British comic writer P. G. Wodehouse, being best known as Aunt Agatha, Bertie Wooster's least favourite aunt, and a counterpoint to her sister, Bertie's Aunt Dahlia.
Aunt Agatha also seems likely to have caused Bertie's expostulation that " It is no use telling me that there are bad aunts and good aunts.
Bertie's father is said to have had many siblings.
However, the relative ages of Bertie's father and remaining uncles are unclear, so it is unknown whether Bertie or one of his male cousins would be in line to inherit the title.
Also, Bertie's former schoolmaster at Malvern House, Aubrey Upjohn, appears or is mentioned several times.
One detail of Bertie's school life which comes into several stories is his winning of the prize for Scripture Knowledge while at Malvern House.
When Jeeves expresses disapproval of a particular article of Bertie's clothing or grooming, be it a brightly-coloured cummerbund, a check suit, purple socks, white mess jacket, various hats or even a moustache, it is certain that it will be disposed of by the end of the story, sometimes after a period of coolness between the two.
Bertie's Aunt Dahlia, on the other hand, is extremely impressed by Jeeves's intelligence and is often party to his clever schemes.
He is the cousin of Bertie's sometime fiancée, Honoria Glossop, and is usually engaged to Bertie's cousin Angela.
Augustus " Gussie " Fink-Nottle (' Spink-Bottle ' to Bertie's Aunt Dahlia ) is a fictional character in the Jeeves novels of British comic writer P. G. Wodehouse, being a lifelong friend of Jeeves's master Bertie Wooster and a possible member of the Drones Club.
She is much beloved by her nephew, in contrast with her sister, Bertie's Aunt Agatha.
It also features a host of other recurring Wodehouse characters, and is mostly set at Brinkley Court, the home of Bertie's Aunt Dahlia.
In Bertie's absence, Jeeves has been advising Bertie's old school friend, Gussie Fink-Nottle, who is in love with Madeline Bassett.

Bertie's and Lord
Aunt Agatha later marries Florence's father Lord Worplesdon, and Florence begins to call Agatha " mother ", to Bertie's bemusement, so evidently the two terrifyingly imperious females feel some sort of spiritual kinship.
Jeeves notices a likeness of Lady Florence on Bertie's mantelpiece and comments on the eccentricity of her father, Lord Worplesdon, whose employ he left when his lordship insisted on dining in dress trousers, a flannel shirt, and a shooting coat.
Francis Heppenstall and staying at Twing Hall, the seat of Lord Wickhammersley, a good friend of Bertie's late father.

Bertie's and suggesting
Jeeves, observing Bertie's painful state of mind, goes directly to the kitchen and returns with a drink on a tray, suggesting that Bertie drink it.
As Jeeves is packing, he expresses disapproval of Bertie's " rather sprightly young check " suit, suggesting a simpler brown or white twill instead ; Bertie informs him that this is " absolute rot " and " perfectly blithering ", to which Jeeves nevertheless replies courteously.
Willoughby does not believe it ; nevertheless, Edwin convinces him to search Bertie's room, suggesting that he affect to be looking for something left by Mr. Berkeley, the room's previous occupant.

Bertie's and uncle
After the food arrives, Bingo asks Bertie's advice on how to present the matter of his marrying a waitress to his wealthy and upper-class uncle, on whom he is financially dependent.
The maid informs Bertie, ever the more puzzled, that there is a phone call for him ; it is Bingo, who tells him that has told his uncle that Rosie M. Banks is Bertie's pen name.
Also in residence are American family, the Creams, who must be handled with kid gloves to prevent their canceling a big business deal with Bertie ’ s uncle ; Audrey Upjohn, Bertie ’ s former headmaster, who still chills Bertie ’ s soul ; Upjohn ’ s insipid daughter, Phyllis, who is infatuated with the playboy kleptomaniac wastrel American, Willie Cream, and must be put off ; Bertie's old pal Roberta Wickham, engaged to be married to Bertie ’ s old pal Reginald Herring, who has written a caustic, libelous review of Upjohn ’ s memoirs and thus whose future depends on assuaging Upjohn ’ s wrathful soul ; and familiar face Roderick Glossop, eminent psychologist to the wealthy, is there in the disguise of a butler to surreptitiously assess Willie Cream's psyche.
After he committed a gaffe by reacquiring a silver cow creamer that Tom Travers, Bertie's uncle had sold to Wilbur, he was forced to reveal his identity to the occupants of Brinkley Court and to place the blame, incorrectly, on Bertie Wooster.
Tuppy's uncle is Bertie's nemesis ( and later good friend ) Sir Roderick Glossop and his cousin is Bertie's ex-fiancée Honoria Glossop.

Bertie's and well
Early in the series, Sir Roderick suspects Bertie of suffering from a mental disability, borne by the discovery of twenty-three cats ( three in the television series ) in Bertie's bedroom as well as the presence of a goldfish and his own top hat which had been snatched from him in the street.

Bertie's and .
Two sisters of Bertie's father play major roles in most of the stories and novels.
Bertie's description of the two aunts makes them appear exact opposites, although both criticize him heavily for his aimless life.
Bertie's early education took place at the semi-fictional Malvern House Preparatory School.
Most of Bertie's friends and fellow Drones Club members depicted in the stories attended one or more of these institutions with him.
Bertie's scriptural knowledge ( like most of his mental catalogue ) often retains at least part of the literal quote, while completely losing the original meaning and context.
Among Bertie's many reasons for not wanting to marry are his dislike of children and that all of his fiancées seem to have an aversion to Jeeves, insisting that Bertie dismiss him after their wedding.
Because of this, he manages to steer Bertie out of every close relationship, sometimes against Bertie's will.
Aunt Agatha also disapproves strongly of Jeeves's influence on Bertie, seeing his position as Bertie's " keeper " as further proof of self-insufficiency and unwillingness to take responsibility.

Uncle and George
`` Uncle George ''!!
The original lineup included Kenny Olson on lead guitar, Uncle Kracker on turntables, Andy Gould and George Metropolous on guitar, Paul Anthony on bass and Bob Ebeling on drums.
Later that evening, George's absent-minded Uncle Billy ( Thomas Mitchell ) interrupts them to tell George that his father has had a stroke, which proves fatal.
* Brandon Hurst ... Uncle George
He wrote " If you wanted to sum up the relative position of Britain and America in this century – the ebbing away of the pink areas of the map, the fading of national self-confidence as Uncle Sam proceeded to colonise the globe with fizzy drinks and Hollywood – you could do it like this: they had Star Trek, we had Blake's 7 ... No ' boldly going ' here: instead, we got the boot stamping on a human face which George Orwell offered as a vision of humanity's future in Nineteen Eighty-Four.
" In The Literary History of the United States, George F. Whicher called Uncle Tom's Cabin " Sunday-school fiction ", full of " broadly conceived melodrama, humor, and pathos.
Which of Stowe's characters should be emulated, the passive Uncle Tom or the defiant George Harris?
* Aiken, George L. Uncle Tom ’ s Cabin.
In the film, Captain George Stacy tells Peter and Aunt May of new evidence that suggests Carradine was only an accomplice of Flint Marko, who was Uncle Ben's real killer ; Peter then imagines Marko throwing Ben out of the car and gunning him down in cold blood while Carradine desperately tries to stop Marko before driving off.
However, in the 1920s, the son, Clarence, repeated the story and published a book in the United States, My Uncle George V, in which he claimed he was born in London in September 1890, about nine months after Albert Victor's meeting with Mrs. Haddon.
During their holidays, they are regularly sent to the seaside village of Kirrin to stay with their Aunt Fanny and Uncle Quentin, whose daughter, Georgina, is a tomboy who insists on being called George.
She is known to have a friendly relationship with both George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush, who awarded her Kennedy Center Honors in 2003 At other times, she has also questioned both political parties: " Dear Uncle Sam " was written in 1966 during the Lyndon B. Johnson administration to " recount the human costs of the Vietnam War ", and she made a return to her live sets during the Iraq War under George W. Bush's presidency.
Among the artists working on the Disney comic strips were Floyd Gottfredson ( Mickey Mouse, Treasury of Classic Tales, holiday ), Roman Arambula ( Mickey Mouse ), Rick Hoover ( Mickey Mouse, Gummy Bears ), Manuel Gonzales ( Mickey Mouse ), Bill Wright ( Mickey Mouse, Uncle Remus ), Ted Thwaites ( Mickey Mouse ), Riley Thomson ( Uncle Remus ), Chuck Fuson ( Uncle Remus ), John Ushler ( Treasury of Classic Tales, Scamp, Uncle Remus, holiday ), Carson Van Osten ( Mickey Mouse ), Al Taliaferro ( Donald Duck ), Frank Grundeen ( Donald Duck ), Al Hubbard ( Donald Duck ), Kay Wright ( Donald Duck ), Ellis Eringer ( Donald Duck ), Dick Moores ( Uncle Remus ), Paul Murry ( Jose Carioca, Uncle Remus ), Daan Jippes ( Donald Duck, Mickey Mouse ), Tony Strobl ( Donald Duck, holiday ), Jim Engel ( Mickey Mouse ), Ken Hultgren ( Mickey Mouse and His Friends ), Julius Svendsen ( Mickey Mouse and His Friends, Treasury of Classic Tales ), George Wheeler ( True Life Adventures ), Jesse Marsh ( Treasury of Classic Tales ), Richard Moore ( Winnie the Pooh ) and Bob Grant ( Merry Menagerie ).
* George Hurst as Uncle Gomez
* The Wonderful Tar Baby, an Uncle Remus story, read by George Browne
* Brer Rabbit Makes a Fool of Brer Fox, an Uncle Remus story, read by George Browne

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