Word: well-to-do
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...tastefully dressed man, Doole was at once reserved, even shy, yet highly sociable. The lifelong bachelor often squired wealthy widows to embassy dances in the capital. "George Doole? Oh, he was a perfect gentleman," recalls one consort, Irene Evans. At the Chevy Chase Club, a Wasp bastion in a well-to-do Maryland suburb, Doole sometimes liked to while away afternoons playing bridge and backgammon. He usually won. "George? Well, he was quite a boy," chuckles a fellow clubman, retired Rear Admiral Raymond Hunter...
...well-to-do residents of the oceanside resort city of Santa Barbara, Calif., they are known as tree people, after Fig Tree Park, a place many of them call home. Palms outstretched, the scruffy men and women beg from pedestrians on the main shopping artery. They urinate in alleys, rummage for food in supermarket dumpsters, snooze on store stoops. Their beer cans and assorted flotsam dot the lush green parks. They are Santa Barbara's homeless, perhaps 2,000 displaced people in a population of 75,000. The city's mostly retired, wealthy, conservative Establishment, although resigned to their presence...
Born into a well-to-do family and educated in the best schools, Palme built his career on his reputation as a friend of the laboring classes and of the poor and oppressed everywhere. His egalitarianism and idealism often got him into trouble, not only with conservatives at home but in the international arena, where he sometimes seemed most comfortable...
Authorities at first described the tampering as a local incident. The cyanide-laced Tylenol capsules were traced to an A & P supermarket in Bronxville, a well-to-do bedroom community (pop. 6,000) adjacent to Yonkers. Officials ordered Tylenol capsules removed from all stores in the area for examination...
...Cuban leader's youth. He was raised in Oriente province, a region that had no resident priests, but his childhood home was full of religious objects. His mother was a "fervent Christian" who prayed daily and lit candles to the Virgin Mary and the saints. His father, a well-to-do farmer, had no time for religion. Castro was not baptized until he was five or six, but all his education until university was in Roman Catholic schools. "If someone were to ask, 'When did you have a religious conviction?' I'd say I never really had one," says Castro...