Word: godivas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Board of Trade Harold Wilson announced, after more than seven threadbare years, that clothes rationing was ended forthwith. Mr. Wilson publicly tore up his own little red ration book. Demonstrating its ability to get vernally cute, the Board of Trade had called the derationing of clothes "Operation Godiva." Stores braced themselves for a furious stampede of British Godivas clamoring to buy new clothes. But it never came; instead, there was a rush on towels, sheets, handkerchiefs and underwear. High prices kept customers from splurging on clothes, rationed or not. Sagittarius jingled in the New Statesman and Nation...
...Lady Godiva [TiME, Aug. 9]: hang the Coventry school authorities and all holy Ned-raising historians up with Collier's version-but leave us laymen see Landseer's "lemon...
...road back after its wartime shattering by the Luftwaffe, Britain's Coventry was shaken with historical controversy: Should that old Coventryite, Lady Godiva, be shown riding her horse sidesaddle or astride? For years an 1898 painting by Artist John Collier (see cut) had been hanging in the city's council chambers. But it had lately been joined by Sir Edwin Landseer's sidesaddle version, and local school authorities were raising holy Ned. Children just should not be exposed to such a thing, they protested. Their objection: the sidesaddle was unknown in Godiva's day, 900 years...
Bridling at the censorship, the Workshop cited historical precedent in Maud Adams 1911 "Lady Godiva" jaunt through Harvard Yard, and trotted out plans for construction of a hay-lined dressing room...
...final neigh was voted, however, when it was "pointed out that while "Godiva" Adams' tresses were more than ample, "Godiva" Holabird's might not quite cover the situation...