Word: spider
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...KING SPIDER-D. Bevan Wyndham Lewis-Coward McCann & Edwin V. Mitchell...
...bank for princes of the Church and great officers of the realm was the Banco Bombelli a few days ago. Its chairman, bland, steady-eyed, imposing Commendatore Jorio, inspired Cardinals with confidence, competitors with fear. He was rumored to sit spider-high in the Fascist web of Star Chamber courts which sentence men to exile and rot on 77 Duce's penal islands. Last week the Banco Bombelli, small but among the oldest and most select in Rome, failed...
Where was Commendatore Jorio? Fascist police could not answer. So high had he sat in the spider web that he knew its every mesh, and was able to skitter out of Italy, even after the alarm was sounded, unchallenged by frontier guards. A thoroughgoing rascal, he had, it appeared, even cheated the Most Holy...
...Mussolini has not made many Italian banknotes clean. The Cardinal was not surprised when Commendatore Jorio asked him to leave the check (already endorsed) overnight, until the fresh bills required could be scrambled for and sorted out. Hastily, when the august robed figure of His Eminence was gone, godless Spider Jorio cashed the check into dirtiest tainted money, cashed two much larger checks also fraudulently obtained for a total of 461,534 lira, skittered...
...laboratory explosion and Raphael came from Manhattan for her, she married Raphael and together they went traveling in Europe. By him she conceived at last, and a blood transfusion failed to save her life. An oracular gnome called Bolonowski, whose delicate embroidery seems to exude from her body like spider-thread, helps the author explain that these events are "a counsel to eagles, and a warning to their despoilers...