Word: affluent
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...collection of six one-act plays no commercial producer would care to put on. Author Wilder has returned at last to the U. S. But The Long Christmas Dinner will give little aid & comfort to patriotic critics: no potential bestseller, its appeal is limited to the intelligentsia, for the affluent of whom there is a special edition of 500 copies (autographed...
There were until last week about 15,000 Chinese in Mexico.* They are not coolies. Most of them are prosperous, hard-working shopkeepers and farmers. In the northwestern states of Sonora and Sinaloa, Chinese merchants own about 80% of the grocery shops and vegetable markets. Indolent Mexicans regard the affluent Chinese with sullen eyes...
...back to Michigan and took his degree. In New York he took his first and only subordinate job, in the offices of P. W. Chapman & Co. Inc. Here he acquired experience in distributing securities. He married the daughter of a professor in Ann Arbor, took her to live in affluent Greenwich, Conn...
...Last week in France died James E. O'Neil, one of the key witnesses in the Teapot Dome suits who fled the U. S. in 1924, lived in affluent exile...
...Students living in the houses must pay a minimum board charge; they cannot work for their board in the house; they cannot work in restaurants, the most common way of earning expenses among students. The houses, instituted to democratise the college, put their benefits beyond the reach of less affluent students...