Word: well-to-do
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...contacts with outsiders, these Cistercians speak no word, communicate their needs to one another in sign language. Like their famed but less ancient brother order, the Trappists, they are vowed to silence, poverty, chastity, obedience. Humbly, courteously they welcome and wait upon visitors, accepting alms from the world-weary well-to-do, or nothing from needy wayfarers...
...When well-to-do women invited him to accompany them to Venice at their expense, he was not insulted but accepted gratefully. And when he speaks of a minor operation he had, he says straight out that it was for piles...
Dubya-Dubya was a spellbinder but his morals were not above reproach. Still, he taught Danny several things before the law cracked down on him. Danny's next refuge was with a well-to-do rancher's family. The two sons. Hank and Steve, became his pals, the daughter his sweetheart. When the boys went back to military school, Danny went with them. And there bad blood began to brew between Danny and Steve. It came to a head when they had a finish fight. Steve won; the same day he was killed in a polo game...
...Bachelor was no bachelor but an intense, earnest lady of Circleville, Ohio. Publisher Fanchon Devoe (actual name: Mrs. Robert Lee Criswell) was graduated in 1921 from Ohio State University as Bess Willis. Successively a newspaper editor, an adwoman, a radio scriptwriter and author, she is now married to a well-to-do Circleville lawyer. Inspired to create Bachelor and having heard from afar of Manhattan's elegant Bachelor Lucius Beebe, she sought him out on his home grounds for advice. Bachelor Beebe, who does a weekly column on metropolitan high life and works on the dramatic side...
Ranks of the ministry are today being recruited from men who have to work their way through both college and divinity school, because well-to-do parents discourage their sons from entering the profession, Willard L. Sperry, Dean of the Divinity School says in his annual report, made public Saturday...