Word: well-to-do
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...Chief Justice stated his belief that prohibition had come to stay, but characterized the effect of the law as " demoralizing" because it had added to the criminal classes "a group of well-to-do men and women, usually an element of strength in enforcing...
...their future pay. Secretaries Weeks and Denby are powerless and must wait till Congress reassembles to get relief for their subordinates. Mr. McCarl's ruling was based on the fact that in some cases the privilege had been abused to get extra pay for officers whose families are well...
...first to Stella's loudly expressed distaste. Then Stephen took a job in New York. They drifted apart?at last were separated. Stella herself was getting commoner and commoner. Meanwhile Stephen had resumed a strictly intellectual acquaintance with a highly refined first-love, now widowed?and had become well...
...thousands of petty of fleials are paid salaries to manage rail road affairs. Thus railroad income is widely distributed, and the railroads kept in operation. The same plan is also applied to general industry by means of providing not only a living wage, but surplus for sarings. Finally the well-to-do will be stripped without musay bloodshed. Howe'a Monthly...
...students is also shown by their public campaigns against gambling in which the women students took a prominent part, and the fact that although according to ancient custom it was a dishonor for a student to work with his hands, the students of Canton Christian College,-coming even from well-to-do families, when they wanted a swimming pool dug it for themselves...