Word: giulia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Banker Giovanni Morosini. aide to Garibaldi, art collector and onetime partner of Jay Gould; of a kidney ailment; in Manhattan. The elder Morosini left a museum-like Victorian mansion and an estate once estimated at $25,000,000 to his children, of whom Victoria married a coachman, Giulia a policeman. Amalia, an invalid since birth, survives...
...Daughter Giulia was the old Doge's pet. Beautiful, wild and wilful, she was a magnificent horsewoman and used to spend $200,000 a year on her clothes. At one horse show she wore 17 different costumes. Newspapers once published her dress budget. It included 365 pairs of gloves. She would never wear a pair twice...
...Giulia Morosini was the only woman allowed to drive three horses abreast in Central Park. They were hitched to a high blue dogcart. She wore a blue driving habit and their harness was of blue kid to match, trimmed with solid silver. One day a saddle horse bolted with her in the Park. She was rescued by Mounted Policeman Arthur M. Werner, whom she promptly married. In 1916 ex-Policeman Werner tried to make her raise his allowance from $75,000 to $100,000 a year. She kicked him out of the house, had the marriage annulled...
...Giulia Morosini went all the old Doge's treasures. In her last years she became a recluse, kept Elmhurst locked to all but a few intimates though she was always extremely generous to charities. Last February she died, leaving ample bequests to her brothers & sisters and a dozen institutions, and the pick of her father's armor collection to the Metropolitan Museum. To settle the residue of the estate, one auction of furniture and household effects was held at Elmhurst last spring. There was still enough left to keep auctioneers busy for six days last week. All Miss...