Word: well-to-do
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...fact is that during the Franco-Prussian War Honoré Haudouin was forced to lie quietly under his mother's bed while a Prussian sergeant had his way with her. Convinced that Zèphe Maloret sent the Prussians there, he has hated the family ever since. His well-to-do brother Ferdinand wants to drop the feud because Maloret is important politically. Ferdinand is the kind of man who, on hearing that his favorite son wants to enter the priesthood, says flatly: "You'll get no dessert until you have changed your mind." Hearing the shocking story...
...anachronistic that today, when a Harvard education is a more valuable investment than ever, the teachers who provide the product are worse of financially than ever before. Similarly, it seems strange for the College to be subsidizing the education of a well-to-do "C" student by some $900, while an insolvent "C" student may not even get a scholarship...
When James Conant became President in 1933, he found America's oldest college filled with well-to-do students from the Eastern seaboard, most of whom suffered from neither ambition nor ability. One of his most imaginative efforts at reform was the National Scholarship program, which sought out able insolvents from all parts of the nation and guaranteed them four years of study, free from term-time work...
...urbanization pattern is familiar. Rising population density lowers the physical standards of the city. The well-to-do residents emigrate to more attractive suburban areas. The tax base decreases, and the tax rate climbs. Industry is driven out by taxes and the environment. Municipal service grows worse, as the need grows greater. Crime and delinquency rates rise, disease increases, and schools become blackboard jungles. In short, the familiar pattern of metropolitan slum living becomes inescapable...
...simple Irish lass named Bridey Murphy has now resolved the puzzle that so troubled Hamlet. Bridey died in Belfast in 1864, but in 1952 and '53 she came back from "the undiscover'd country" to tell a well-to-do Colorado businessman and amateur hypnotist named Morey Bernstein what it is like after death...