Word: well-to-do
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There is a story told of a party at the fashionable Sulgrave Club in Washington, which the well-to-do, unfashionable Tafts attended. Taft always drives his own car. He had driven it that night. As the Tafts were getting ready to go, the doorman hopefully shouted: "Senator Taft's car." The Senator laughed. "It's a good car," he said, "but it won't come when it's called." Neither will the Republican Party, as Taft well knows. If he wants it to go his way, he will have to drive...
...Despite the apparent justice of an equiproportional tax cut for everybody, the bill proves on closer examination to be a vicious example of regressive tax relief. In effect, the brainchild of Messrs. Knutson and Martin gives little aid to the lower income brackets and reserves the plums for the well...
...People (at least in Britain) are becoming less intelligent, reported London Psychologist Sir Cyril Burt. It is an old story, said Sir Cyril, that the intelligent well-to-do have fewer children than the poor. The real hitch: "Among the far more (numerous working classes it is still the most intelligent families who contribute fewest to the next generation...
After smashing in a mailbox and getting the $65 check, Parkhurst would usually head for a liquor package, haber-dashery, or speciality shop in metropolitan Boston. With his brown hair neatly slicked back, and always nattily dressed, he gave the perfect appearance of a well-to-do college...
...Hinman, took him to see a deserted estate near Canaan, N.H., with Canaan Street Lake at its doorstep and the New Hampshire hills at its back. To help Brewster and Hinman start their school, Dartmouth College, which owned the estate, sold it to them for next to nothing. Well-to-do New Englanders (among them: Vermont's U.S. Senator Ralph E. Flanders, the Boston & Maine's President Edward S. French), who admired Cardigan's "practical" kind of education, staked the school...