Word: matriarchic
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...matriarch is the aged Mrs. Frederick Lummis, a Wellesley graduate (1911) who is the widow of a physician. Her son, William Rice Lummis, is a member of the prestigious Houston law firm of Andrews, Kurth, Campbell & Jones, which has handled the Hughes family's private matters for half a century. There are three other Lummis children, all with at least potential claims to Hughes' estate: Frederick Rice Lummis Jr., a physician; Annette Neff, wife of a Houston banker; and Allene Russell, a Boston suburbanite. Another aunt has died, but three of her children could be claimants...
...Britain wants to stand for -something safe, sane, stable and as everlasting as the Tower of London," praised the Sunday Mirror. The tribute was just one of many inspired by the 75th birthday this week of Britain's Queen Mother, who endures as her country's beloved matriarch. Though she declined to appear for any television interviews, she willingly posed for an official birthday photo, and her royal family planned a black-tie dinner at Buckingham Palace complete with Scottish pipers, a three-tiered birthday cake and, rumor had it, some spoof gifts from Grandson Prince Charles...
...month rent out of his own pocket. Gifts are invariably returned to the sender: a gold pass to Disneyland, a copy of The Tale of Peter Rabbit in Latin. Brown even rejected a volume commemorating the tenth anniversary of the Los Angeles Music Center, a gift from Buff Chandler, matriarch of the politically powerful family that publishes the Los Angeles Times. With that, his father, former Governor Edmund G. ("Pat") Brown, complained, "Jerry goes too far. He could have at least sent a personal note...
...youngest of four children in a working-class family in Everett, a small mill town 28 miles north of Seattle. His Lutheran parents had emigrated from Norway in the 1880s; Father Peter was a cement worker, Mother Marie was a stern but loving matriarch who infused in her son a strong sense of right and wrong...
Claudine (Diahann Carroll) is a maid. Roop (James Earl Jones) is a garbage man. She is a blend of obnoxious stereotypes. The first is the libidinous black woman who cannot stop having children despite her poverty. The second is the stern, loving matriarch urging the middle-class success ethic on her brood. Roop is merely single-line stereotype, the stud who has fled his obligations to one family and is now doing his best to love and leave Claudine...