Word: well-to-do
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...Tory failure is all the more notable because Britons, whatever their hopes of the socialist future, find the present dreary beyond measure. Lawyers and engineers, as well as clerks and workmen, talk seriously of emigrating to lands where opportunity is not muffled. Australia has received applications from 150,000. Well-to-do Englishmen are buying estates in Eire, where eggs and meat abound. In the House of Commons last week, Herbert Morrison's brain-truster, Mr. Gordon-Walker, complained that the BBC had broadcast a song...
...book is tough reading. Everybody keeps talking all the time, and not about anything that seems to matter much except in certain circles of well-to-do suburbia...
...Heir. Manuel Roxas was born on New Year's Day, 1892, in the house of his well-to-do grandfather in Capiz, on the Visayan island of Panay. His father had been killed six months before by the Spanish. At eleven, Manuel Roxas was sent to school in Hong Kong. But his dislike of Chinese food brought him back in a year to the schools of Capiz, then being set up under the American system...
Life thus far, according to this picture, has been busy but mildly boring for Composer Porter (Cary Grant). As a youth with a talent for songwriting, he annoys a wealthy grandfather by walking out on his Yale law books. Pride prompts him to snub the girl he loves-a well-to-do blonde (Alexis Smith) who longs to support him. Eventually wed, famed and wallowing in royalties, he gets into domestic hot water by neglecting pretty Mrs. Porter for his fascinating work...
...mill politician, wavy-haired, well-tailored Roger Slaughter has always shown a streak of independence, makes no bones about his conservatism. Princeton-bred and well-to-do, he has a successful law practice, plays dufferish golf at the Kansas City Country Club, generally remains aloof from the hurly-burly of Missouri politics. He particularly roused the President's ire by going out to Harry Truman's home territory*and making a rousing speech on behalf of the Case Bill just before the President vetoed it. Worse yet, a great many Kansas citizens seemed to like the speech...