Word: mora
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...PLACE OF SPLENDOR-Constancia de la Mora-Harcourt, Brace...
...PLACE OF SPLENDOR-Constancia de la Mora-Harcourt, Brace...
Constancia de la Mora was born in Madrid, in 1906. Her grandfather Don Antonio, an old man of majestic beauty, was Spain's greatest statesman; and she was subjected to the petrifying education which was the privilege of females of her class. When she was 20, in spotless ignorance, she married a pathic provincial nearly seven feet tall, who gave her a daughter and lived off her money...
Constancia de la Mora's story of her life could serve, if one were needed, or if all others were destroyed, as a history of Spain in the 20th Century...
...early August. By week's end the Generalissimo had been at least half successful. The Rightists had reached the Ebro River bank along an eight-mile stretch formerly held by their enemy and the Leftist holdings had been reduced to a tiny circle around the main bridgehead at Mora de Ebro...