Word: affluently
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...
...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...
Chester Dale is a stockbroker, member of the firm of W. C. Langley & Co. On the Floor his name is sometimes associated with that of M. J. ("Mike") Meehan, famed Radio specialist. Always interested in art, by 1923 the Dales were sufficiently affluent to begin collecting. They did it with a rush. After four years picture dealers and critics rated the Chester Dale collection as one of the four or five most important collections of modern art in the U. S. Antique dealers know that Mrs. Dale's collection of furniture and early American glass is nearly as good...
...party cost, how many orchids and cases of champagne there were. The Christmas holidays, when dancing youths are home from school & college, is the most propitious time for mothers & daughters to perform their parts in Society. Among the more spectacular parties which the women of the nation's affluent conceived, arranged and executed last week were the following: Washington's party-of-the-week, gauged by size and publicity, was not given for a Washingtonian. It was given by Mr. & Mrs. Henry Latham Doherty (utilities) of Manhattan* for Miss Helen Lee Eames Doherty, Mrs. Doherty's daughter...