Word: well-to-do
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Navy. The experience, he remembers, was "like taking a deep breath." Assigned in 1944 to an all-Negro unit, many of whose members were college graduates, he became interested for the first time in Negro history. The other highlight of his naval career was his meeting with a well-to-do Negro girl named Frances Marguerite Byrd, who was a student at Virginia's Hampton Institute, where Harry was in training. He immediately recognized her as "everything I ever wanted," assured her that she would marry him some day, and departed for more training on the West Coast, leaving...
...YOUNG ASSASSINS, by Juan Goytisolo (273 pp.; Knopf; $3.95), describes the half-silly, half-tragic capers of some angry young men who are not sure what they are angry about. Their arena is Madrid. Their indulgent parents are mostly well-to-do and cannot understand why their sons neglect their studies, spend their time with prostitutes and sneer at middle-class comforts. Up to that point, the youngsters described by young (28) Spanish Author Goytisolo have got their kicks from booze, sex and seedy night life. But when Ana, the lone girl in the gang and the only one with...
Daddy is a well-to-do, eternally busy Kansas City attorney, who showers his wife with money as well as silence. Mrs. Bridge fills her days with abortive attempts to paint, to learn Spanish, to keep a scrapbook, to read. But her grasshopper attention is best held by gossipy lunches and club meetings. Novelist Connell seems to say that the very fatness of Midwestern life makes for fatheadedness in its citizens...
...France's well-to-do, traditionally among the world's most adroit tax evaders, there would be sharply increased income taxes and a new method of assessment according to "external signs of wealth." Regardless of what a taxpayer may declare, the government will add $1,200 to his taxable income if he has a maid, about $1,300 if he has a small car less than five years old, another $1,200 for each racehorse he owns. And if a man is unwary enough to possess more than six such external signs of wealth, the assessors will automatically...
...profit was by no means confined to the poor boy who made good; it also blessed many a well-to-do heir apparent. Among those whom service helped equip for heavy jobs waiting back home: Armour's President William Wood Prince (artillery captain), Ford's Vice President Benson Ford (Air Corps captain), IBM Boss Thomas Watson Jr. (Air Corps pilot). While an aircraft-carrier deck officer in three Pacific battles, Indiana's J. Irwin Miller, 49, gained the confidence it took to build the family owned Cummins Engine Co., Inc. into the largest U.S. maker of truck...