"Stephen Harding" wrote in message
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George Z. Bush wrote:

employees with excessive salaries. So, old money? It hardly seems likely.
If,
as he himself says, he always considered himself comfortably well off while
he
was growing up, that probably would have been a testimonial to the frugality
with which his parents managed their accumulated resources rather than
inherited
wealth, as most old money is usually acquired.

Old money can also be acquired through marriage.

I disagree. Old money is money that's been in your family for ages. What
people get when they marry into it is the title "nouveau riche".

George Z.