His father, adhering to old-money codes of conduct, demurred.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rich Man's Michael Moore] Reference

That sounds like an old-money hobby, but Schmid says he's different.    From Wordnik.com.  [A New Breed] Reference

Unlike Lamont, he's not a millionaire businessman from a old-money family.    From Wordnik.com.  [HILLARY CLINTON: IS SHE THE NEXT PRO-WAR DEMOCRAT TO FALL?] Reference

This was her weak point, and the weakness indeed of the old-money upper-crust.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Aristocracy and Its Discontents] Reference

He posed as if he were a rake and a bit of a snob, smiling an old-money smile.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poor Devil] Reference

But you don't need to leave the hotel to see old-world, old-money New England.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brahmin On The Common] Reference

He affected the kind of old-money drawl she always heard at Harper family reunions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Only You]

There's nothing the old-money Right fears more than these kind of popular movements.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rumsfeld's Mind: If 9/11 Worked, Why Not Try it Again] Reference

EDINA IS AN old-money neighborhood located a few miles southwest of downtown Minneapolis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heaven’s Fury] Reference

The old-money rich dont like it when the new money shines a spotlight on their private enclaves.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fat Chance] Reference

If this fails then stalk the aisles here, watching the old-money crowd buying hot dogs and Velveeta.    From Wordnik.com.  [Palm Beach, Fla.: Exclusively Yours] Reference

Knowing it was bought with Snake Pit profits did nothing to alter the feeling of old-money snootiness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seven Up]

And so the dashing old-money heir tracked the master criminal to his lair … er, his bed-and-breakfast.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Counterfeit Rockefeller] Reference

It was run by the old-money set -- careful, mostly Protestant Anglophile bankers with university degrees.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Water Is Wide] Reference

I recently came upon these two ads in magazines and noticed how they both evoke old-money wealth and luxury.    From Wordnik.com.  [EVOKING UPPER-CLASS LUXURY IN ADS » Sociological Images] Reference

The dude is so rich and old-money that he's probably got a closet full of tuxes and a garage full of Mercedeses.    From Wordnik.com.  [While Other People Sleep]

And then there is the fact that the threadbare remnants of old-money fortunes are, frankly, no longer very impressive.    From Wordnik.com.  [Preppy Pitfall: All That Madras, Not Enough Effort.] Reference

Compared with 50 years ago, the proportion of students coming from old-money families and exclusive prep schools has dropped.    From Wordnik.com.  [The tea party warns of a New Elite. They're right.] Reference

With its grand estates, this old-money enclave is similar to Beverly Hills but has fewer tourists out to gawk at celebrities.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Most Expensive ZIP Codes] Reference

Exhibit B: The old-money traditionalist, self-assured and comfortable in the understated grill rooms of the private golf world.    From Wordnik.com.  [New York Is Golf City!] Reference

We took archetypes – the new money Long Island girl, the old-money Greenwich girl, and thought about them from the inside out.    From Wordnik.com.  [Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » AUTHOR INTERVIEW: Caroline Says, Part 2] Reference

In 1996, though, when she was a recent Harvard grad headed for law school, she met Schiff, the scion of an old-money finance family.    From Wordnik.com.  [Karenna Gore Schiff separation aired as forthrightly as her parents'; also, catching up with the other Gores] Reference

Mr. Kessler was ninety-five, from an old-money railroad family, and he was bitter and angry at the modern world and everything in it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Step on a Crack]

Win was a big-time financial consultant at Lock-Horne Securities, an old-money financial firm that first sold equities on the Mayflower.    From Wordnik.com.  [One False Move]

That was the only reason they let me into old Alpha Kappa Alpha, after all, to help the jocks and old-money frat boys keep up their GPAs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine]

I once went out of my way to an estate sale in a swanky, old-money neighborhood that advertised a sewing machine among the items available.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Guest Rant on "Why Are Vintage Patterns So Expensive?" - A Dress A Day] Reference

Schwarzman himself would comment neither on his gift to the library, nor on any old-money resentment or anti-Semitic sentiments it may have provoked.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jamie Johnson: Wasps Stung over Renaming of the N.Y.P.L.: Jamie Johnson] Reference

But when cars hit the sweet spot for these buyers (a car, say, that brought back memories of youth to old-money buyers) the bidding was spirited indeed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Inside The Bonhams Auto Auction] Reference

But this time, it's the old-money aesthetic that people are copying.    From Wordnik.com.  [Top stories from Times Online] Reference

These old-money matrons could care less about the upkeep on their estate.    From Wordnik.com.  [PopMatters] Reference

But these old fashioned accents are right at home in old-money Beverly Hills.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eater LA] Reference

Microsoft executive and an old-money millionaire to con businesses, Richard Ruben Wakeley Jr.    From Wordnik.com.  [KOMO News - News] Reference

And high-earning people, except for the old-money set, shy away from calling themselves upper class.    From Wordnik.com.  [Propeller Most Popular Stories] Reference

Part of the League's ongoing stereotype, Lovett explains, is tied to its blue-blood, old-money roots.    From Wordnik.com.  [Forbes.com: News] Reference

Many of them believe Thaksin was the first Thai politician to challenge old-money elites and fight on their behalf.    From Wordnik.com.  [KI Media] Reference

Profiled in today's New York Observer, Rob is an old-money descendant of a signer of the Declaration of Independence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gawker] Reference

The logic is so compelling, in fact, that it is even attracting Europe's old-money bankers from the comfort of their Swiss fortresses.    From Wordnik.com.  [FinanceAsia] Reference