Word: godiva
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...extraordinary set they were. His Carpathian peasant nurse, Cassandra, part witch and part illiterate earth mother, was given to romping naked with the pack of family dogs -- "a Lady Godiva with a pitch-black mane," whose fierce nurturing exuberance was in utmost contrast to the coddling anxieties of a beautiful, irascible Viennese mother. Mama believed she had gone below < her station in the polyglot provinces of the Bukovina. Father was sexually unfaithful to her and volcanic in temper; an anti-Semite who despised Nazis as Untermenschen; a watercolorist, photographer and architectural historian whose diversions included dragging a dead wild boar...
...CARD WAS SIGNED WITH A question mark, but Virginia Brieant found nothing suspicious about the Valentines' Day gift of Golden Godiva candy that had been sent to her Westchester County home. She unwrapped the box and ate four of the chocolates. Then she collapsed...
Last year, Leslie recieved a box of Golden Godiva chocolates. The sender was not identified and, because of an address mix-up, the chocolates were spoiled by the time the professor and his wife received them. This year, the Leslies were again sent a mysterious Valentines gift of candy, and the FBI analysis concluded that these chocolates contained the same poison as those sent to the judge. Reportedly, people at Duke and Yale received similar packages...
Most popular item at Godiva Chocolatier: 140. of chocolates in a red velvet heart box for the cost...
Campbell Soup, which manufactures Godiva chocolates, was not amused. In a letter to Grey, the company charged that she was "passing off inauthentic and offensive merchandise" that looked like candy for humans and "may constitute a danger to public health." Campbell demanded that she supply a list of her customers, "destroy all the packaging" and "pay over to us the profits." Grey, who says that Campbell is "barking up the wrong tree," sued the company in a Los Angeles federal court for interfering with her enterprise. Campbell countersued, and Grey filed an additional complaint with a California state judge...