Word: chums
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ready for bigger things. Neil and his wife Sharon were welcomed as a winsome couple in Denver's highly stratified social set. Sharon volunteered to help at Children's Hospital, Denver's most chic charity. She sold cookies through Cookie Express, a mini-business she started with chum Nancy Davis Zarif, daughter of Denver oil tycoon Marvin Davis, who dominated society in the city. Neil played squash at the Denver Club. But genteel poverty amid rich friends pinched: with Neil's $30,000 Amoco salary and a relatively modest $210,000 home, the Bushes were not keeping pace with their...
...Thus the most renowned figure will turn out to be a friend of a friend of a friend. When a well-spoken young black man bursts into a Manhattan millionaire couple's home, bleeding from an apparent mugging and claiming to be both a Harvard chum of their children and the son of Sidney Poitier, the startled Wasp hosts believe him. They accept even his screwiest assertion, that he can get them bit parts in a film of Cats to be directed by his father, because they, like most victims of confidence tricks, are blinded by vanity...