Word: well-to-do
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...Joannah Felicity Touchet Clapton, only child of stout English stock, became one of thousands of British children sent to the U.S. to escape the London blitz. In suburban Mendham, N.J., Joannah found a second mother on a pleasant, ns-acre estate. Florence Whitney, the childless wife of a well-to-do broker and an heiress in her own right, found in Joannah a bright, ingratiating girl who soon became her whole life. Joannah's father, an infantry captain, was killed in Normandy, and Joannah's mother remarried, now lives in South Africa. Mrs. Whitney took over Joannah...
...chosen, Philip Evergood could have lived a perfectly respectable life. His father, an artist named Blashki, was an Australian Jew of Polish descent who emigrated to the US but his mother was a member of a well-to-do Anglican family who was determined to have a son educated in her native England. son educated in her native England. When Philip failed to get past the Committee of Admirals for entrance into for entrance into the Naval Trainging College at Osborner, his father fired an angry letter to First Lord of the Admiralty, Winston Churchill, demanding to know whether...
...Superior Valet. First and greatest of the dandies, of course, was George Bryan Brummell. The son of a well-to-do bureaucrat (he confounded criticism of his birth by claiming that "my father was a very superior valet, and kept his place all his life"), Beau Brummell in his teens became the friend of the fat, feckless Prince of Wales. By dressing with unheard-of care and severity-he used only two colors, blue for his coat and buff for his waistcoat and trousers-and by developing a haughty silence that could strike like a thunderclap, Brummell made himself...
...Well-to-do Australians who used to import their art now decorate their homes with Sidney Nolan's poetic visions of Australia's "outback," William Dobell's savagely realistic portraits, or the landscapes of the late Aborigine Albert Na-matjira. And with Ray Lawler's play, Summer of the Seventeenth Doll-which got raves in London-Aussie audiences for the first time accorded box-office success to a play by an Australian about Australians in the Australian language...
...Francisco's Mark Hopkins Hotel when Five & Dime Heir Lance Reventlow, 24, came along and took her hand in marriage. It looked like a happy match all round. Lance's mother, Sextuple Bride Barbara Mutton, 47, apparently had no objections to Jill, 19, daughter of a well-to-do Beverly Hills electronics wiring maker of German-Jewish lineage; neither did Babs seem upset by her new daughter-in-law's virtually bare-breasted exposure in a recent look-and-leer magazine. As for Jill's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Oppenheim, they raised no open protest...