Word: well-to-do
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...came of a good family, fairly well-to-do. He had two older brothers, both successful and normal. In school, X showed himself fairly bright, but lost interest in his studies, took to playing hookey, running away from home. He seemed indifferent to reproaches and punishment. As he grew older, he started to drink-not with friends, but in low dives or, more frequently, alone in the woods and fields. His father got him a job in a store. For three days all went well. On the fourtli day X showed up glassy-eyed, leeringly insulted several customers, swept...
...changed from the beginning to the end of his life, for he ended just where he started -in the horse-&-buggy age, without the addition of very much plumbing. Yet here in my own life, which is not entirely over, I am already in an entirely different world." A well-to-do upbringing full of Tennysonian sentiments, St. Swithin's prep school ("Play up-and play the game"), Harvard clubs, Boston society and Maine coast summers equipped Harry Pulham with snobberies and ideals for living in Boston of the 1890s. Suddenly he found himself an infantry lieutenant in France...
...Coming home to his Bronx apartment, John Pappas, 54, well-to-do wholesale grocer, found the place in disorder. In the bedroom, on the bed, lay the half-naked body of Mrs. Pappas, her hands and feet bound, the towel with which she had been strangled wrapped tightly around her neck...
...Tennessee farmer, he went to Dallas to work for his well-to-do uncle, M. T. Jones; then went to Houston in stead of college. In nine years he ran one lumberyard into 65, branched out into real estate, banking, other investments...
...Kent-are Protestant, in spirit if not by direct church affiliation. Twenty-five years ago a Jesuit-educated young man named Nelson Hume decided that this was unfair to Roman Catholic boys. In the hills of western Connecticut, not far from Hotchkiss and Kent, he started Canterbury School, where well-to-do Catholic boys, without neglecting their religious training, might prepare for Yale, Princeton, Harvard and Williams with the same swank as their Protestant contemporaries. Last week this Roman Catholic Groton celebrated the success of Nelson Hume's idea...