Word: well-to-do
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...long after their arrival in California, his parents were divorced. When his mother remarried unhappily, Darryl began spending his summers back in Nebraska with her father, Henry Torpin, a well-to-do grain processor and landowner who could spin eyewitness tall tales about an Indian massacre. In letters to his grandfather, the scrawny boy soon outdid the old man's stories with lurid imaginings of what might be seen from his train window...
...death penalty falls for the most part on obscure, impoverished, friendless or defective individuals and rarely on the well-to-do and educated. The church believes that each individual is sacred as a child of God, and that to legalize the killing of an offender is to deny the basic Christian doctrines of forgiveness of sin and the power of redemption, and that mercy is a Christian duty...
...well-to-do families of Chicago's broad-lawned suburb, Winnetka, Ill., turned out this week at the red brick community church* to honor the man who has been baptizing them, marrying them and preaching to them for 20 years -and loving...
Died. Frances Seymour Brokaw Fonda, 42, well-to-do estranged wife of the stage & screen's Henry Fonda (Mister Roberts); by her own hand; in Beacon...
Frater Felix Fabri, a Dominican, was born in Zurich about 1441, of a well-to-do family named Schmidt. He was a jolly friar, and he "dared, among great things and true, grave things and holy, to mingle things silly, improbable, and comical" with such gusto that a reader may sometimes think he has strayed into a company bound for Canterbury...