Word: well-to-do
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With three horses, a 14-in. plough, an ingrained fear of debt, and an ingrained faith in God, old Christopher's son Charles began to break the tough prairie sod for his well-to-do neighbors. In time he became such an artist with the plough that he earned as much as $1 an acre. When not ploughing, Charles Kuester worked out for $15 a month in summer, for his board & keep in the stiff Iowa winters. Before he had saved enough to buy land, he married. By the time Gus, his seventh child, was born (1888), Charles...
...trailers. They lived on hamburgers and Cokes. In the last few months, six top amateurs have turned pro. Said one of them, Fred Haas Jr.: "It cost me $6,000 to expense myself through 25 tourneys last year. That's costly." Almost the only amateurs left were well-to-do businessmen who can break par, but cannot break into the Big 20. They get a kick out of being in the same tournament with golf's big names...
...Guffey, who had twice ridden into the Senate on Franklin Roosevelt's vote appeal, now hoped that the state ticket would help carry him through. For a candidate for Governor, the Democrats settled on John Stanley Rice, former Air Forces colonel, a mild, well-to-do Gettysburg apple grower whose political star had never risen higher than the state Senate. For Secretary of Internal Affairs they found Colonel Rice a G.I. running mate: Philadelphia's blind hero Al Schmid, former Marine sergeant...
Married. Carl Joachim Hambro, 60, well-to-do, Conservative president of Norway's Odelsting (Lower House of Parliament), onetime president of the League Assembly, now a UNO delegate; and Gyda Christensen, 73, Norse actress; he for the second time, she for the third; in Oslo...
Make a Million. A faintly flat "a" still marks Bob Gross as a Bostonian. His family was fairly well-to-do, but his mother, of whom he says he is still scared to death, disapproved of the local schools. So she tutored Bob at home until he was ten. Then she put him in the first grade at public school. She had taught him so well that by afternoon he had been promoted to fifth grade. He spent his last school year at fashionable St. George's School in Newport. At Harvard he turned into a joiner...