Word: well-to-do
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...after Mr. Barry was turned out of Professor Baker's 47 Work-shop?and Johnny Case of Holiday (1928) are two Barry heroes with much in common: they hate the world of affairs, view big business with distrust. But another Richard, the composer who almost runs off with the well-to-do hero's wife in Paris Bound (1927), is moved to remark: "I used to curse into my beard whenever I passed a house like this. I used to spit on the pavement whenever a decent-looking motorcar passed me. I don't any more because I've found...
Murder in the Squire's Pew tells more of robbery and intrigue than of murder; you feel Author Fletcher granted a corpse only out of deference to his readers' taste. When a well-to-do English clergyman discovered that his church had been robbed of some priceless 15th Century church vessels he was naturally upset; when the detectives he sent for found a dead man in the squire's pew he was struck all of a heap. The murderer was tracked and some of the treasure recaptured in a few days, but before the whole truth came out Canon Effingham...
...reward for good work in the school and an incentive to good work at the university (since they will be taken away if the student rests on his laurels). Naturally many boys could not go to the university if they did not exist. When they are won by a well-to-do boy the stipend is commonly resigned to the next man on the list until a needy man is found, but the title with its honors is hold by the winner. The main reason for having them is that the work is better done than it would otherwise...
...that blanketed New York Harbor some 200 well-to-do Yale and Harvard men, with a sprinkling of Prince-tonians, sailed for Boston aboard the S. S. Pan America, chartered to attend the football game at Cambridge (see p. 23). In the first three hours 148 bottles of champagne were consumed. By 3 a. m. the bar's supply of Scotch whiskey was exhausted, not by heavy guzzling but because some of the passengers, including Publisher Noble A. Cathcart of Saturday Review of Literature, were accused of hoarding. The ship's stewards asserted that more liquor was purchased...
Depression-born babies will probably grow into men and women of subnormal size (Professor Franz Boas of Columbia University). "Economic conditions influence the size of growing children. . . . Among the poor the period of adolescence is delayed and the final stature shorter than that of the well...