Word: godiva
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Rich But Honest tells how two poor working girls jilt their garagemen steadies for life on the stage. One rises to the spectacular part of Lady Godiva in a voluminous blond wig. The other gets a rich beau with "honorable intentions...
...wooed by one Leofric, Earl of Mercia and Lord of Coventry. Forthwith, she rode through the streets of Coventry at noon on a white horse and she had nothing on at all but the long-yellow hair which hung down from her head. She was the Lady Godiva, and her ride delivered the people from a tax their lord had put on them and which history has told about. This month the village of Kings Bromley comes up for sale. For the last 100 years it has been held by the Lane family who are now forced...
...fooled.'" The medium's great-aunt, "Julia Ward Howe," related haltingly the embarrassment of her first experience in the spirit world, when she found herself before the great "Judge of the Dead," clad only in "a very remarkable head of hair, my dear nephew, something like Lady Godiva...
...very remarkable head of hair, something like Lady Godiva...
...Angeles, a white horse, carrying a nude cinema lady enacting Lady Godiva's ride, went wild, threw the lady, stamped on her arm, leaped into the orchestra pit, landed among a crowd of 450 extras...