Word: well-to-do
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...robbed by some French companions, saved from starvation by a kind farmer, thrown overboard by some Roman Catholics on a pilgrim ship because he was a Protestant, picked up by friendly privateers, whom he joined in an attack on a Venetian argosy that made him, in one swoop, a well...
Public education had existed in Massachusetts since 1647, but "common schools," housed in pigsty style, were taught by underpaid ($185 a year for men, $65 for women), unqualified teachers using helter-skelter teaching methods; the well-to-do sent their children to private schools. This infuriated Mann, who believed that mass education was the key to successful self-government. "We need general intelligence and integrity," he cried. "Select schools for select children should be discarded...
Troublesome Tunes. Gioconda de Vito was born in the south Italian hill town of Martina Franca, locally famed for its bandits, where her father was a well-to-do owner of vineyards. Music was in the air, and she was picking out tunes on the mandolin before she was four, soon switched to the violin. Curiously, she could not (and still cannot) carry a tune. This failure almost cost her the chance to study at the Pesaro conservatory, but her fiddling got her by, and in two years she had carried away all available prizes...
...Very Fury. His father was a music teacher in the town of Oldham, and young William went to Oxford as a chorister. There he made friends with Sacheverell Sitwell, of the well-to-do writing Sitwells. The family took a fancy to William and helped him financially while he was trying to make his way; few modern composers have been able to concentrate on their work with fewer mundane worries...
...doctors hope that patients will come back regularly for rechecks. For this reason, though there is no charge for care that may cost thousands, Director John A. Trautman would choose a well-heeled patient over a charity case with identical symptoms; the well-to-do are easier to keep track of for checkups. Admissions are arranged only by doctors and other hospitals; individual patients who apply are wasting their time...