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Word: corti (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...RISE OF THE HOUSE OF ROTHSCHILD-Count Egon Caesar Corti-Cosmopolitan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rothschild Sons | 6/25/1928 | See Source »

...international banking concern. Probably they came from their magnificent palaces to see Amschel the Younger, head of the House, and to consult the aged Gudula, Die Uralte, an illiterate Sibyl who had vowed never to quit her chair by the window "save only for the tomb." Finally, although Count Corti does not note it, 46 of the descendants of Meyer Amschel had intermarried before the 19th century was out, in a burst of shocking eugenics and sound economics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rothschild Sons | 6/25/1928 | See Source »

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