newly-rich
Example Sentences
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Behold him in The Vortex, his first writing-acting success, backed by newly-rich Michael Arlen.
From Time Magazine Archive
The krone, dropping dizzily, turned today's newly-rich bourgeois into tomorrow's bankrupt.
From Time Magazine Archive
The newly-rich man usually wants to make a splurge, he doesn’t want to buy a country home away off somewhere, in an out of the way nook, where people can’t see him.
From The Radio Boys with the Revenue Guards by Breckenridge, Gerald
Eleanor turned, glanced at the living representative of the newly-rich, and smiled delightedly—not with recognition but at the possibility of having fun with someone arrayed like a peacock.
From Polly and Her Friends Abroad by Roy, Lillian Elizabeth
This danger period is when the newly-rich find fault with the wives who have helped them to their success.
From Think A Book for To-day by Hunter, Col. Wm. C.
