Word: narcissa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Julia Peabody Lewis Morris, 47, wife of Philadelphia Financier Effingham B. Morris Jr. (Girard Trust Co.); when a horse she was riding caught its knee on a fence in mid-jump, somersaulted onto her; near Narcissa...
...whole Spartan-boy-&-fox school of understatement. Kit has never forgiven his father, U. S. Tycoon Abbott, for his mother's death, for not accepting his own War bride until it was too late. His whole life is vowed to revenge. From Venice, where his sister Narcissa lives in anxious pomp with her noble Italian husband, Kit spins the cabled threads of a financial web in which to catch his father, bring him to his knees. Though details are left vague, his scheme is ripe for success except for money. This he gets at the last minute from...