Word: well-to-do
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...snob and not stay at the Carlton in Cannes? One guest kept three Chihuahuas on leash, another rushed in and out with a live leopard in his arms, and neither attracted much attention. Monte Carlo's sprawling Hotel de Paris had its rooms filled with idle maharajas, well-to-do Americans, lost Frenchmen. Nice's Hôtel Negresco welcomed financiers who kept the switchboard busy with their calls to brokers in Paris, London and New York...
Every centimeter an equestrienne on her white mount, Yasmin Khan, 9, daughter of Aly Khan and Cinemactress Rita Hay worth, displayed some reinless riding form in the posh French seaside resort of Deauville. Recently a subject of perennial squabbling between her parents, well-to-do Yasmin is now spending the summer with her fast-living father...
Moving among the tables in the Ibis café in Cairo's new Nile Hilton Hotel, pretty Afaf Abou Ali, 22, daughter of a well-to-do Alexandria family and owner of a B.A. degree from Alexandria University, went about her waitress job with more spirit than the job usually gets elsewhere in the world. After all, jobs for long-sheltered Egyptian women have until lately been few and far between, and her $150 a month at the Hilton was three times what she could earn in government work. Besides, there were unexpected fringe benefits: one day a guest...
...body and spirit against which Savonarola thundered were the underside of the same secular Renaissance that produced Michelangelo and Leonardo. It was an age of triumphant humanism, within and without the church, and Savonarola, as Ridolfi relates approvingly, set himself against his era's dominant faith. His well-to-do family had hoped that he would become a physician, but the ills-or the glories-of the body concerned...
...though segregating them by sex-all boys, white and Negro, in one, all girls, white and Negro, in the other. The Governor's "solution," which the Arkansas Gazette called a "bad political joke," would have sent hundreds of Negro students to Hall, the high school located in the well-to-do Pulaski Heights area that has consistently voted against Faubus. But it would also have left Central a segregated school. Because this would clearly have violated the federal court order to deny no citizen entrance to a public school because of color, Faubus could hardly have expected the school...