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Everyone thought he must be a caddy, said Bill Schellenberg , Hossler's god-father and frequent caddy in big events, including this week.
Beau's Braced for Open Charge John Paul Newport 2011
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And Maui's god-father he named sometimes Akalana and sometimes Kanaloa.
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Everyone thought he must be a caddy, said Bill Schellenberg , Hossler's god-father and frequent caddy in big events, including this week.
Beau's Braced for Open Charge John Paul Newport 2011
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Valéry Giscard d'Estaing here, the god-father, architect, and creator of the Constitution for Europe, has declared: 'This text is, in fact, a rerun of a great part of the substance of the constitutional treaty ... the public is being led to adopt, without knowing it, the proposals that we dare not present to them directly'.
Archive 2008-01-01 Not a sheep 2008
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The three of us are uncles to the lovely little Rhiannon over in Taiwan - but I get the official distinction of being her god-father as well!
Archive 2009-05-31 Toby O'B 2009
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I understand that Romero is the god-father of modern zombie flicks, but this looks and sounds terrible so far.
First Look: Zombies from George Romero's Island of the Dead « FirstShowing.net 2008
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His god-father had predicted that he would turn out a man of genius, and had bestowed on him these two significant names:
Les Miserables 2008
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Barry, the god-father of the Vaubernier, was very welcome at the house of
Les Miserables 2008
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This Nazi ideology came to the United States in the form of Leo Strauss, the god-father of the Neo-cons.
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I hate to break it to you, but Hermes, and not Zeus is your, um, god-father.
A reader asks... 2007
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