Word: well-to-do
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...Though well-to-do, Sam still lives like any other Yorkshire villager-which means, among other things, that he inhabits a world in which wonder is still possible. One early Monday morning, for instance, the certitude develops among the mill hands that the days of the week are stuck, and it is still Sunday, a sinful day to work. Almost a week passes before Sam's acquaintance, the King (who talks a Yorkshire solid as cheese), helps straighten things...
Pulham embodies the reflections of a Boston investment counsel when his 25th Class Reunion Committee asks him for a brief biography of his life. Back goes the camera into his well-to-do Boston upbringing, his "carryon" prep-school days at St. Swithin's; Harvard and culture; World War I and the Argonne; Manhattan and the advertising business; the girl he loved (Hedy Lamarr); his easy, fateful slide into his late father's (Charles Coburn) sinecure; his passionless marriage to his mother's choice (Ruth Hussey); his slightly bewildered, slightly querulous, slightly pathetic acceptance of his fate...
...emanate from the rich. The upper five per cent of the nation forms the backbone of the clientele that patronizes Harvard and buys for its sons the education which Harvard has to sell. Even scholarship students, varying amounts of whose scholarships are paid from endowments, come from a relatively well-to-do portion of the community. It is doubtful whether many students, even the National Scholars, have fathers who carry union cards...
Distinctions of last week's marriage: the bride, daughter of a Chicago lumberman, came from a well-to-do family; she was a comparative newcomer to Broadway; Manville had been on the wagon more than a year. "This is the real thing," he said. "I mean to settle down." Day after the wedding the silver-haired asbestos heir confided to reporters: "My heart went cloppity, clop-clop all night...
Harris advocated that "in general the tax program should aim to put, the greater burden on the well-to-do, but in this emergency it is important to cut down consumption of the masses." Taxation of the lower income groups is more effective in reducing consumption than taxation of the upper income class. Controlled inflation may even be necessary to bid up the prices on resources necessary for the defense effort...