Word: well-to-do
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Born in Moscow in 1891 of a well-to-do Jewish family, Ehrenburg was a poet of the long-haired kind before the revolution. During the civil war, he swung in behind Denikin's White Guards and strongly attacked Communism in an early poem. Then, when it appeared that the Bolsheviks were there to stay, he flirted with Trotskyism, dropped it for Bukharinism, and finally in Paris, where in bohemian Montparnasse he kept a step ahead of the consequences of his earlier misjudgments, he became Stalin's advocate...
...relatives Arbenz will doubtless see in Switzerland is his father's well-to-do brother Ernst Arbenz, and Ernst may talk to him like a Swiss uncle. A blind cheesemaker of Alstatten ("One doesn't have to be able to see to put the holes in cheese"), Ernst told reporters last week that he had written his nephew a letter of advice a few months before the President fell from power. "I told him he should shake off his Communist advisers," Ernst recalled. "But either he got annoyed or his Communist friends intercepted the letter, because neither...
...talent he recruited the daughters of well-to-do families. Takarazuka flourished in the '305, but it was not till after World War II that it really came into full bloom. Today Takarazuka is a thriving city of 35,000, and the railway (also serving other suburban stops) carries some 700,000 passengers a day. Two of the four Takarazuka troupes (named Snow. Moon, Flower, Star) stay at home, while the others tour the rest of Japan. Showman Kobayashi, now a multimillionaire, also owns theaters, restaurants, a baseball club and a movie company...
...which they are not equipped to perform. In assigning suites, the Masters are supposed to give poorer members the low rent rooms, and the wealthier students accommodations at higher prices. The rent adjustment funds are designed to provide some flexibility in the assignment process. But Housemasters have found that well-to-do students will argue long and vigorously for the luxurious, but low priced suites. Unless the Masters know the prosperity of every student in the House, they cannot administer the varied room rent system very wisely...
...wealthy suburban high school was delighted by the fact that it had been offered $250,000 in college scholarships. But the school's guidance counselor was disgusted: "We didn't need a single dollar." Why had so much been offered to such a well-to-do few? The fact is, says President John Perkins of the University of Delaware, "something akin to a scholarship racket has evolved." In their blind competition for promising freshmen, many colleges and universities are unwittingly giving aid to students well able to pay their...