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  The Comic Shed Presents....   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
For his performance, Godfrey did impressions of his coaches and fellow teammates and ended up stealing the show and at the same time discovering his true vocation, comedy.
In addition to his film and television work, Godfrey has now become one of the most dominant comedic presence on the New York comedy scene where he is often in demand as both a host and standup guest star.
Godfrey can regularly be seen performing in New York's hottest comedy clubs such as The Comedy Cellar, The Comic Strip, Carolines Comedy Club and the Boston Comedy Club.
members.aol.com /comicshed/danchimah   (1030 words)

  
 Memorable Quotes from My Man Godfrey (1936)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Alexander Bullock: All you need to start an asylum is an empty room and the right kind of people.
Godfrey: It's because my real estate agent felt that the altitude would be very good for my asthma.
Godfrey: The only difference between a derelict and a man is a job.
www.imdb.com /title/tt0028010/quotes   (875 words)

  
 O Pioneers! (Entire text)
Alexander's Bridge, the story of a bridge builder divided in himself between his youth and his maturity, veering restlessly between his mistress in London and his wife in Boston, and finally destroyed in the fall of his greatest bridge, was published by Houghton Mifflin Company in April 1912.
Alexander's failure to receive the message of danger in time was his own fault, a result of his turning again to Hilda when she comes to him in New York.
Alexander screened her face from the firelight, which was beginning to throw wavering bright spots on her dress and hair as the dusk deepened.
www.unl.edu /Cather/works/se/alexander/alexandertext.htm   (20605 words)

  
 John Alexander Godfrey Family
+-->Enoch Godfrey (1796, Nova Scotia - 1865, New Brunswick)
  Ethel Muriel Godfrey (1922, New Brunswick -)
  Constance Isabella Godfrey (1925, New Brunswick -)
goodies.yi.org /Genealogy/Godfrey/Godfrey_I16.html   (1237 words)

  
 William Gifford - Mary Godfrey
Elizabeth Godfrey was born on 20 Dec 1704 in Harwich, Barnstable, MA.
George Godfrey was born in 1707 in Chatham, Barnstable, MA.
Hannah Godfrey was born on 26 Jan 1702/3 in Harwich, Barnstable, MA.
www.geocities.com /~latenitejer/d167.htm   (442 words)

  
 My Man Godfrey (1936 b 93')   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
At a party Godfrey serves, and Tommy Gray (Alan Mowbray) says he knew Godfrey at Harvard, saying Godfrey has five children and causing Irene to announce her engagement to a fool.
Godfrey meets Tommy and says he gave all he had to a woman but was saved by the men at the river.
Irene broke her engagement and flirts with Godfrey while he washes dishes; but he says he had a bitter experience and is moving on.
www.san.beck.org /MM/1936/MyManGodfrey.html   (446 words)

  
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Godfrey of Lorraine, already a troublesome and rebellious vassal, had recently, without the emperor's leave married the widow of the Marquis of Tuscany [171] and become thereby lord of a territory of immense strategical importance that stretched across the Apennines and was a formidable obstacle to communications between Germany and Rome.
Alexander was even able to compel such chiefs of the German episcopate as the Archbishops of Cologne and Mainz and the Bishop of Bamberg to come to Rome and stand their trial.
When, in 1073, Alexander II -- not the least of whose merits was that he survived to rule for more years than his six predecessors put together -- came to die, the reform movement had been, for a quarter of a century, the primary occupation of the popes.
www.freivald.org /~jake/church-history/historyOfTheChurch_volume2chapter6.html   (21230 words)

  
 Cringe Humor - Comedy That Questions Your Morality
Godfrey will poke fun at retards, molestation victims, and throw in a hilarious fart joke for good measure...Both intelligent and plotting on stage, Godfrey mainly amuses himself yet the results are hilarious
Godfrey discovered his true comedic abilities when performing impressions of his college football teammates during a talent show for the team and staff.
Later, Godfrey made his New York debuts at Caroline's Comedy Club and The Comic Strip, where he was immediately discovered and signed by the prestigious talent agency, William Morris.
www.cringehumor.net /godfrey   (494 words)

  
 DVD Verdict Review - My Man Godfrey: Criterion Collection
Godfrey proves to be more than a match for the Bullocks and he soon starts to solve many of the family's problems which in turn leads Godfrey himself onto the road to recovery.
In fact, every relationship seems to be a game: Irene and Cornelia; Irene and Godfrey; Cornelia and Godfrey; Alexander Bullock and the rest of his family including his wife's protégé, Carlo; and the rich and the poor.
Godfrey even allows himself to be married to Irene at the end, although there has been no really strong foundation laid by the script that would make such a match the obvious conclusion to the film.
www.dvdverdict.com /reviews/mymangodfrey.php   (1694 words)

  
 Haines History
On February 16, 1802 Godfrey Haines, Alexander Haines and Martha (Dingee) his wife, Solomon Haines and Hannah (Merritt) his wife and Sarah (Miller) the widow of Matthew Haines mortgaged their property to Augustus Van Cortlandt for 2,000 Spanish milled dollars or pieces of eight.
About 1850 Godfrey Haines had his brother Joseph, who was carpenter as well as farmer, build the house at the corner of Croton Lake and Meeting house roads(now the residence of Miss Anne Morgan).
Both Godfrey Haines(the son of Solomon) and his cousin John D. Haines (the son of Alexander)** were presidents of that organization.
www.hainesweb.com /history1.shtml   (943 words)

  
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She offers Godfrey $5 to be her forgotten man, and he pushes her in an ash heap.
Godfrey is working hard to become a great butler and regaining his self-esteem, after being jilted by a rich lady, who took all his worldly possessions.
Meanwhile, Irene is falling in love with Godfrey, but he wants no part of it, as he is trying to keep his job as a butler, and is thankful for having a job.
tesla.liketelevision.com /liketelevision/tuner.php?channel=956&format=movie&theme=guide   (821 words)

  
 Clan MacDonald - Information from James Pringle Weavers
After Alexander's death c.1530 his son, John Moidartach (of Moidart), was forced to contest his inheritance with his father's half-brother, Ranald Gallda, who had usurped the chiefship while John was held prisoner in Edinburgh - by connivance between the state and other interested parties.
The lands were restored to Sir Alexander, 7th Baronet, and subsequently erected into the free Barony of Macdonald in 1727.
In 1910 Alexander Bosville of Thorpe successfully claimed the Nova Scotia Baronetcy of Sleat and became Sir Alexander MacDonald of Sleat, 14th Baronet and 22nd Chief of Sleat.
www.electricscotland.com /webclans/m/macdonald/addinfojpw.htm   (2352 words)

  
 Alexander Godfrey Family
It is recorded in Halifax, 27 Jun 1783, that he has made no improvements to the property and is not living there for the preceeding seven years.
+-->Moses Godfrey (1667, Massachusetts - 1743, Massachusetts)
+-->Samuel Godfrey (1703, Massachusetts - 1765, Nova Scotia)
goodies.yi.org /Genealogy/Godfrey/Godfrey_I553.html   (215 words)

  
 WebRoots Library U.S. History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Godfrey built the frame tavern that stood upon the site of the present brick hotel; it was inherited by his daughter Charity, whose husband, William Farrow, became landlord in 1796 and continued as such sixty years.
Alexander Guffy had a distillery in operation prior to 1800, and several establishments of a similar character have since been conducted by different individuals.
Alexander McEwen, a Scotchman by descent, a weaver by trade, and a soldier in the war of 18l2 whence he derived the title of captain, opened the first store and was the first postmaster.
www.webroots.org /library/usahist/honcpa17.html   (10838 words)

  
 MacDonald
Alastair Mòr married a daughter of Red John Cumyn (the one whom Robert the Bruce slew), and was father of John of Lorne.
He had appointed his first-born son, Alexander William Robert (who took the name Bosville and ceasing to be Macdonald became head of the Bosville family) to inherit the Chiefship, but under English law his parents had not been married until before the birth of their third son, Godfery William.
Godfrey had eloped to Ireland with his later wife, so their marriage by "Mutual Consent" was not valid, having not taken place in Scotland but in Ireland.
www.fortunecity.com /bally/leitrim/147/macdonald.html   (3579 words)

  
 Loyalists
Godfrey Haines III of Rye Neck was known to be "one of the most defiant of the Loyalists." A memorandum of November 1775 reported that a plot had been discovered at Rye for the capture of several zealous friends of their country.
In consequence "Godfrey Haines was arrested in September last for speaking disrespectfully of Congress but broke jail and is now on board the Man-of-War in New York harbour.
An extensive rope walk was built at what is now Haines Corners (on the Croton Lake Road) and farmers from all the surrounding area brought hemp and flax, grown in their own fields, to be made into the sort of rope desired.
www.hainesweb.com /loyalists.shtml   (676 words)

  
 My Man Godfrey (1936)
As Godfrey authoritatively goes about his rounds throughout the film, the quirks of the mindless and artificial Bullock family members are repeatedly displayed.
Cornelia is amazed by the revelation: "Imagine a butler with a college education!" When Gray announces as part of the fabrication that Godfrey was married to an Indian wife and had five children, Irene spitefully retaliates and announces her engagement to a fatuous old flame Charlie Van Rumple (Grady Sutton).
Godfrey explains that a broken, unhappy love affair (presumed) in Boston had made him depressed and "pretty bitter" and cascaded him down to a lower station in life.
www.filmsite.org /myman2.html   (1616 words)

  
 The Rover
During her career as a privateer, she sailed under the command of Captain Alexander Godfrey.
As a reward for his services, Captain Godfrey was offered a commission in the Royal Navy and the command of one on Her Majesty's ships.
Captain Godfrey died in 1803 of yellow fever and was buried near Kingston, Jamaica with nothing to mark his final resting place.
www.brooklynmarina.ca /rover.htm   (230 words)

  
 alex   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
The children were : Raphael (c.1817/9-1882), Godfrey (1820-1900), Abraham Edward (1823-1908), Morris (1825-1910), Samuel (1827-1911), Michael (1831-?) and Rosa (1838-?).
Godfrey moved to Sydney in c.1863 and he became Sydney's first Chiropodist.
Their 3rd child, Louis Godfrey ALEXANDER, a Photographer, was my great grandfather.
www.hotkey.net.au /~smithk/alex.htm   (139 words)

  
 ScotClans - Clan MacDonnell of Glengarry - Clan History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
When Godfrey's son Alexander was executed in 1427, the lands became the property of the Crown.
Donald was killed in battle and Alexander, tricked into attending on James V, was swiftly jailed in Edinburgh until 1542.
The 12th chief of Keppoch, Alexander, and his brother were both slain in 1663 in what is remembered as Tobair-nan-ceann, the Well of Heads, not far from Invergarry.
www.scotclans.com /clans/MacDonnell_of_Glengarry/history.html   (588 words)

  
 Historical Biographies, Nova Scotia, 1800-1867.
They are all mad, romantic, money-getting and not truth-telling.' Reputedly Sir Alexander practised nepotism unduly, as when he entered his seven-year-old son on the books of his ship Thetis as a volunteer in 1796 and kept him under his pennant until 1805, when Thomas was promoted lieutenant on Jason.
Born in New England, Godfrey came to Liverpool in 1784.
"Captain Godfrey was a man considerably beyond the ordinary size, of an exceedingly quiet demeanour and retiring disposition." He died in 1803 of yellow fever, while on a trip to Jamaica.
www.blupete.com /Hist/BiosNS/1800-67/List.htm   (4562 words)

  
 A FromTheBalcony Review: Kingdom Of Heaven (2005)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
By the way, Godfrey lets Balian know his mother willingly gave herself to him without asking for even a tiny plot of land to grow a few vegetables.
Godfrey conveniently drops dead right after naming Balian his heir and anointing him a Knight.
Godfrey’s aide-de-camp, Hospitaler (David Thewlis, who always seems to be chewing food as he speaks), gives him counsel and helps him navigate Godfrey’s vast land holdings.
www.fromthebalcony.com /reviews/2005/05_kingdomofheaven.htm   (1027 words)

  
 levy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
She married Godfrey ALEXANDER in 1850 at Geelong, Victoria, Australia, where he had a Draper's shop.
They had 11 children : Sarah (1851-1930), Samuel (1853-1935), Louis Godfrey (1855-1924) and Leah (1857-1924) born in Geelong, Vic, then Rose (1859-1912) and Emmanuel (1861-?) born in Collingwood, Melbourne, Vic, followed by Hannah (1863-?), Sidney John (1865-1927), Eveline (1868-1878), Abraham Ernest (1871-1936) and Ida Esther (1873-1932) born in Sydney, NSW.
Miriam LEVY was the daughter of Samuel Michael LEVY and Sarah SIMMONS (1790-1883).
www.hotkey.net.au /~smithk/levy.htm   (133 words)

  
 Godfrey   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
After one year, Godfrey decided to go out on his own.
Whenever the opportunity presented itself, he did open mic nights and guest appearances.
In just a short five months he appeared on "Friday Night Videos" twice and assumed the demanding duties of warmup comedian for CBS's Cosby Show and Dan Akroyd's Soulman.
www.stressfactory.com /comics/godfrey.html   (1204 words)

  
 Kingdom of Heaven - ComingSoon.net DVD Reviews   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Marton Csokas and Brendan Gleeson show a little bit of life as the villains of the story, but they aren't on the screen very long.
The same goes for Liam Neeson as Godfrey, Balian's father.
Jeremy Irons finally gets to play a good guy as Tiberias, but I was most shocked to find out that the masked King Baldwin was Edward Norton.
www.comingsoon.net /news/dvdreviewsnews.php?id=11449   (1228 words)

  
 Spoils of War: Privateering in Nova Scotia - Introduction - Nova Scotia Archives & Records Management   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
The first is correspondence from a mid-nineteenth century Halifax magazine, arguing (apparently for the first time in print) that Nova Scotia's privateersmen deserved to be remembered as heroes.
In support of that argument, the editor reproduced in print a first-hand account (document number two) by Captain Alexander Godfrey, captain of the privateer Rover, telling of a bloody encounter he had in 1800 off the coast of Venezuela against Spanish militiamen.
This interpretation is reflected in the words of Robert J. Long, who in 1926 declared: "The story of the heroism of Capt. Alexander Godfrey and his heroic fishermen of Liverpool, cannot be too often retold.
www.gov.ns.ca /nsarm/virtual/privateers/intro.asp?Language=English   (1929 words)

  
 Tyrrell County Guardian Bonds
Mary Alexander, John Alexander, John Combs & Joshua Alexander, all of Tyrrell Co.
Alexander McKib, Nehemiah Norman & Isaac Alexander, all of Tyrrell Co.
Joseph Norman, Nimiah Norman & Alexander McKib, all of Tyrrell Co.
patriot.net /~cpbarnes/TYRBONDS.HTM   (1081 words)

  
 Precedents of the SCA College of Arms (Tenure of Bruce Draconarius of Mistholme)
No documentation has been presented to show Alec as a period diminutive of Alexander; indeed, such evidence as exists suggests it to be a purely modern diminutive.
The name conflicts with Alexander, Grand-Duke of Kiev (1220-1263), better known as Alexander Nevsky.
This conflicts with Sebastian Alexander Stormmane (SCA): Sable, an owl displayed argent holding on its breast a rose gules.
www.sca.org /heraldry/laurel/precedents/bruce/Bruceret.html   (19160 words)

  
 The Norton Anthology of English Literature: The Middle Ages: Topic 2: Texts and Contexts
The Nine Worthies are a set of champions, first devised in the thirteenth century, who became a subject for poetry and art.
They were meant to represent the greatest military leaders of all times: three pagans — Hector, Alexander the Great, and Julius Caesar; three Jews — Joshua, David, and Judas Maccabeus; and three Christians — Arthur, Charlemagne, and Godfrey of Bouillon (a leader of the First Crusade, which conquered Jerusalem).
The Worthies constituted a kind of chivalric Hall of Fame to inspire nationalism.
www.wwnorton.com /nael/middleages/topic_2/deschamps.htm   (296 words)

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