Word: well-to-do
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Crash Course. Ed Brooke grew up in a pleasant northeast-Washington section called, coincidentally, Brookland, which was populated by black bourgeoisie. The family belonged to St. Luke's Episcopal Church, a favored house of worship for well-to-do Negroes ?where, it was said, one minister died of sorrow because his congregation complained that his new bride was too black to sit in the pews...
...amused himself playing fiddle with a friendly foursome that Paganini organized, supported himself and his wife by teaching and doing sketches and portraits of well-to-do visiting French couples. Among his patrons was Napoleon's brother, Lucien. Ingres painted Lucien's burgeoning family with Attic simplicity...
...price of a loaf of bread in Chile has gone up 300% in five years. In Peru, 7,266 landlords own 82.6% of the land, and in Colombia, where 300,000 have died during 20 years of La Viblencia-a kind of unextinguishable political civil war-the children of well-to-do families ride to school in armored cars...
...said Bailey, "just to see that he dies." When Coppolino moved to Florida, Widow Farber and her two daughters followed, settling in a house next door. Bailey developed testimony that Marge wanted to marry Coppolino after his first wife, Carmela, died in Sarasota last year. But he married a well-to-do divorcee six weeks after Carmela's death. It was only then, Bailey said, that Marge Farber turned on her erstwhile lover. Even Keuper conceded that her conduct was "disgusting"; after the verdict was in, asked if she had been a dream witness, he replied, "No, a prosecutor...
...late, Spurrier means, to become an instant millionaire. Now that pro football's two leagues have merged and huge rookie bonuses are presumably a thing of the past, Steve may have to settle for being merely well-to-do. He has hired a lawyer to plead his case-and quite a case it is. Spurrier has completed an astounding 61% of his passes, hitting on 179 out of 291 attempts for 2,012 yds. and 16 touchdowns. Against Miami last week, Steve completed 26 out of 49 for 227 yds. and one TD, although the Gators lost...