Word: daughterly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When known counseling methods fail, the child should be taken from its parents. With a rueful laugh Belisle recalls that when his own daughter was in first grade and the teacher asked what her father did, she replied, "My daddy swipes kids." Separating child from family is always a horrifying and legally difficult matter. "It's like being a member of the Gestapo," says Belisle. "As bad as you know the parents are, there they stand, in the doorway, screaming 'I love my child.' The neighbors gather, whispering and pointing. The mother starts calling you four-letter...
...husband John, a real estate executive, has been, she says, "kind of like the Rock of Gibraltar." If she wins, she will rent an apartment in Washington. He will continue to live in Queens with Daughter Laura, 12. Donna, 16, will be away at college; John Jr., 14, will be at prep school...
...attractive daughter of a wealthy, distinguished American family graduates magna cum laude from Radcliffe College in 1969 and gets a job in a London art gallery. There she meets and falls in love with a dashing young businessman from Greece. He is a year older than she, and he shares her passion for medieval religious art. In 1975 he follows her to Staunton Hill, her family's ancestral home for more than a century: a replica of a Scottish castle set on thousands of acres of rolling plantation land in southern Virginia...
Last week this gothic story turned into a murder case. The victim was Alexandra Bruce Michaelides, 29, daughter of David K.E. Bruce, a career diplomat who served as U.S. Ambassador to Britain, France, West Germany and NATO. Bruce never believed that his daughter, who was known to her family as Sasha, had killed herself. Says an old friend: "David knew there was something odd about it. He was suspicious from the start." Soon after Bruce died last year at the age of 79, his wife Evangeline hired Washington Attorney Downey Rice to investigate Sasha's death. As a result...
...door canvasser in his mayoral campaigns, and later was appointed by Ralph to the Somerville Board of Appeals. "Howe said that the reason he raised our assessment [from a two-family dwelling to a three-family dwelling] was because he ... saw some curtains in the attic where my daughter slept, and just assumed there was a third family there," Doris Griffin says. But there were only two families in the Griffin house. As proof that the Griffins were a three-family household, Howe presented to the assessors photographs he had taken showing curtains in the attic of the Griffin house...