Word: matriarchal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...According to an article published this week in The Criminologist, a British professional journal of police science, Jack may have gone uncaught, but his identity was known to Scotland Yard: "He was the heir to power and wealth. His grandmother, who outlived him, was very much the stern Victorian matriarch . . . His father, to whose title he was the heir, was a gay cosmopolitan and did much to improve the status of England internationally...
Among Greece's great shipping families, intermarriage is something of a tradition like the champagne launching, a notable exception, of course, being Aristotle Onassis' second marriage to John Kennedy's widow. Now rumor has it that Jackie, as clan matriarch, has come to the U.S. to implore her stepdaughter Christina Onassis, 19, not to break up her romance with shipping heir Petros Goulandris...