Word: gudula
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...chief strength and support of the descendants of Moses. All the sons were united though they scattered to the ends of Europe for the first 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...
...this so Jewish deathbed scene the five sons were already dispersed about Europe, leading the various branches of the House. "My father," wrote Nathan Rothschild, "once sent to me in England £600,000 in a single packet by post ($2,916,000)." So long as their mother Frau Gudula Rothschild lived, the five sons came from the ends of Europe to discuss with her and with one another every large transaction. They met in the very house with the rothes schild?but, shrewd, they had it painted green to stop the puns of passersby...
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