Word: well-to-do
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Nine members of Congress today proposed a new, voluntary health insurance plan designed to provide the same care to the poor and well-to-do, at a cost scaled to each person's income...
Frankie Waldron, with his wavy brown hair, his snappy clothes and his electric smile, was as handsome as a junior Arrow Collar Man. Frankie's family was far from well-to-do, but Frankie danced and wisecracked his way into Franklin High School's social upper crust. He was manager of the basketball team, manager of the senior play, and a passionate, if reedy-voiced, star of the debating team. Just about everybody who knew him in Seattle back in 1923 predicted that Frankie Waldron would...
...Armchair. The man in tweeds did not confine his operations to the young. He captivated Meta Berger, well-to-do widow of Victor Berger, first Socialist Congressman. Plump, motherly, highly respected Mrs. Berger was entranced by the eloquence of handsome, charming Eugene Dennis. He persuaded her to go to Russia, and she returned piping the glories of the Soviet Union. Her country home became a second home for Dennis, who settled comfortably into the late Congressman Berger's old armchair. Meta Berger died in 1944, still not disabused...
...system of selecting juries discriminated against Negroes, Jews, the poor, and women. The jury finally chosen showed the quality of their long-winded complaint. Among the 16 were three Negroes, eleven women. The foreman: Mrs. Thelma Dial, a Negro dressmaker. Three of the jurors were unemployed. The only ostensibly well-to-do juror in the lot was Broadway producer and author Russell Janney, 63, who wrote the bestselling Miracle of the Bells, and got $125,000 from Hollywood...
Just plain polo has been back for nearly a year now, but the army polo ponies, the convenient stables, and the well-to-do horse owner aren't coming back. So the polo team became an "away" club, dependent on horses provided by its opponents and hopelessly lacking in local practice facilities...