Word: well-to-do
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...Said a well-to-do Mason (out on parole from a twelve-year jail sentence): "Why don't you declare an economic blockage? It would be better to suffer a few months that way than to suffer Franco a few years more...
...path they blazed, got lost more than once in the plush-horse latitudes of high society. But later editors kept up their fight for women's rights, gumptiously ran Chabas' September Morn (1912) in protest against the prudish post-Victorian ban on nudes. To instruct the well-to-do in the things it was well to do, they helped make skiing, motoring and flying socially acceptable...
...Clark, 47, tall, tireless but untried U.S. Attorney General who is up against his first big test. His prime legal asset: reluctance to file suits unless he is sure he can win them. A better than average student and athlete at the University of Texas, well-to-do, Dallas-born Tom Clark married a Texas coed, won every case he tried as Dallas's district attorney, became a protege of Senator Tom Connally. A dyed-in-the-wool, glad-handing Democrat, he joined the Department of Justice...
...Whitman, genteel, well-to-do daughter of an Italian countess, did not accept the offer. But after her husband died, she remembered it. Last week, in its small (25 ft. by 35 ft.) but plushy quarters on Manhattan's Park Avenue, Countess Mara, Inc. celebrated its eighth and most opulent anniversary. Since its first birthday, sales (of silk ties only, at $6.50 to $15 each) have increased over 1,400%; they netted $40,155 last year...
Missouri's James P. Kern, snow-haired, well-to-do Kansas City lawyer, will take over Harry Truman's former seat. A comparative newcomer in politics, he is a rock-ribbed conservative...