Word: affluent
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...variety artists and minstrels. Today 540 of them throughout the U.S. pay dues to a union (the A.F. of L.'s Music Publishers' Contact Employees) and earn from $150 to $1,000 a week. With a trade jargon all their own, they classify themselves as "payolas" (the affluent and gift-bearing), "car men" (those with limousines to transport bandleaders) and "sitters" (who operate exclusively in night clubs). The "weepers," who are. looked on with contempt by their colleagues, appeal to a contact's sympathy...
...Elmer, by then grown affluent through beekeeping, still hung back. Ethel, all hope gone, haled him to court, sued for breach of promise. Elmer won round one when the judge took the case from the jury. Ethel won round two in the Ontario Court of Appeal. Elmer appealed Ethel's appeal, and the Supreme court ordered a new trial. Ethel won again. Last week the Ontario Court of Appeal dismissed Elmer's second plea, rewarded patient Ethel with $7,000. Elmer pondered whether to pay or appeal once more...
Paka-Jake, needing another outlet, concentrated on clairvoyance: he could always tell that one of his more affluent neighbors was about to die in a few months. Forthwith one of the disciples would be dispatched with a warning-and a promise that Paka-Jake would intercede with the gods if the neighbor paid Paka-Jake a couple of thousand bolivianos (about $40). Sometimes he paid and sometimes not. If not, the neighbor kicked the bucket...
Died. Dennis ("The Duke") Cooney, 63, longtime Chicago vice tycoon, onetime employer of Scarface Al Capone (as a busboy); of a heart attack; in Chicago. Though Cooney was affluent, liked to throw his money around, his mother refused to live on his income, made her living scrubbing floors till her death. Cooney retired from wholesale pandering a few years ago, seeking respectability...
...with the Bank of England some $52,000 worth of U.S. and Canadian securities. The onetime portrayer of money-wizard Rothschild said he was an innocent in money matters. The Lord Mayor disagreed. On parole from the pen where he had been sent for hornswoggling Philippine Railway investors, once-affluent William Buckner said he was busted, that his wife Adelaide Moffett, blue-blooded songstress, is paying their $800-a-month household bills, A plea of Mae West's forgotten husband Frank Wallace for $1,000-a-month temporary support was thrown out of court after Mae said...