Word: well-to-do
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Valentine Day. Then Bobo happened. Born Jievute Paulekiute in the Pennsylvania coal country, renamed Eva Paul, then Barbara Paul as a show-business title, then Bobo by the chic set she moved up to, the comely blonde had been married to Richard Sears Jr., a well-to-do Bostonian who went into the Foreign Service after the war. After first meeting the onetime model and bit actress in a New York restaurant, Win Rockefeller burbled: "I saw her and I knew I was gone." He was 35. The wedding took place at 14 minutes past midnight on Valentine...
...test, Julia's cooking was a bust. As a girl she was a tomboy in a well-to-do Pasadena, Calif., family of six-footers (both her sister and brother, like Julia, top 6 ft., making their mother modest in her boast: "I have produced 18 feet of children"). Julia was content to eat what the family cook served, learned her mothers complete cooking repertory: baking-powder biscuits and Welsh rabbit, and little else. The one time she tried to cook pancakes for breakfast, she recalls, "it took about an hour. It was a real mess...
...that he was retiring No. 42, the blue and gold jersey worn by "the greatest athlete I've seen in ten years of coaching." No. 42 had been Jim Seymour, a gangling "big little boy" who was Shrine's version of Frank Merriwell. Son of a permissive, well-to-do oil-company executive, Jim had a more than ordinarily comfortable childhood: big, luxurious house, backyard swimming pool, a guitar to play folk songs on, and later the use of the family Pontiac (but not the Cadillac) to drive girl friends to the "sock hops" that Shrine staged...
Bands of juveniles ransacked Chinese homes for any signs of wealth. Well-to-do residents were warned to clear out of Peking within three days, return to their villages and submit themselves to the will of the people. Overseas Chinese who had returned to Peking to live out their last days were ordered to go to work on farms. Cried the Guards: "We shall transform Peking into a truly proletarian, truly revolutionary city...
...Cleveland Browns Fullback Jimmy Brown, who lives in a largely Negro middle-class Cleveland neighborhood. "Just don't segregate me." But many find decent housing so scarce in Negro neighborhoods that the only choice is to look in white areas, and often they do so with trepidation. A well-to-do Detroit Negro who thought of moving to Grosse Pointe decided against it because "I didn't want garbage on my porch, and I didn't want my children to be called niggers...