newly-rich
Example Sentences
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The krone, dropping dizzily, turned today's newly-rich bourgeois into tomorrow's bankrupt.
From Time Magazine Archive
Behold him in The Vortex, his first writing-acting success, backed by newly-rich Michael Arlen.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Patronized by old, blue-blooded families, who pretend to have a horror of the newly-rich."
From Dick Hamilton's Cadet Days The Handicap of a Millionaire's Son by Garis, Howard R.
In the middle period of the '70's, when, a great part of San Francisco was building, the newly-rich perpetrated some atrocious architecture.
From The City That Was; a requiem of old San Francisco by Irwin, Will
Strutting along, supported by his fine clothes, and the consciousness of doing the right thing in the right way, the newly-rich man walked up the path to Young's house and ascended the steps quietly.
From The Secret of the Storm Country by Hitchcock, Lucius W.
