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Word: posh (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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CORPORATE LUXURY resort will be built along Colorado's White River by Elliott Roosevelt and two Denver businessmen. Limited to 500 companies, membership will cost $10,000, plus $90 per month dues. Called the All Seasons Club, posh, 250-room hotel is designed for expense-account entertaining, will feature golf course, ski lift, and big-game hunting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Mar. 21, 1960 | 3/21/1960 | See Source »

...once!" There was a fatal ambiguity in Harris' character which ran through a hundred episodes in his life. He was a fire-breathing imperialist as editor of the Evening News and later a liberal pro-Boer in the Saturday Review. He both overtipped and cadged. He hated the posh and the powerful, but once he had the top hat on his own head, he was happy-until he ran out of words and credit. He loved England, yet became a pro-German propagandist in the U.S. during World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: King of Cads | 3/21/1960 | See Source »

Irish Mist. Honolulu hotspots run from the honky-tonks of Hotel Street to the posh tourist traps at Waikiki, but measured by the quality of the entertainment, they all amble along at their old, pre-statehood pace. The Japanese businessman at the Ginza Club sees the same show that titillates the sailors at Bill Pacheco's Oasis. The strippers could never make the big-time spots, but they sport the manufactured Stateside names that are the hallmark of their trade-Irish Mist, Martini Martin, etc. They are small competition for the low-paid song-and-dance girls imported from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NIGHTCLUBS: Lost in The Clouds | 1/4/1960 | See Source »

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