Word: affluently
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Affluent and comfortable alumni like to picture their oldtime pedagogs spending the twilight of their lives in doddering but happy security. Sometimes the alumni do something about it, giving big sums to their schools and colleges. But few have much scientific knowledge of pension systems. So that those interested in that phase of U. S. pedagogy might be better informed, last week President Henry Smith Pritchett issued Bulletin No. 25 of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Its title: "The Social Philosophy of Pensions, with a Review of Existing Pension Systems for Professional Groups...
...Life of the late Mr. Jonathan Wild the Great. The scene is laid in the house of Mr. Snap, gaoler of London's Newgate Prison, in the year 1725. It is Mr. Snap's custom to invite to his home as heavily paying guests the more affluent and well-favored of the criminals in his charge. Thus, when the play begins, the company includes the paunchy rascal Jonathan Wild, a decadent nobleman calling himself Count La Ruse, and one Cartwright, a callow poet incarcerated for debt...