Word: posh
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...about it is Barbuda, an 18th century slave-breeding ground 15 miles long by about five wide, with one hotel called Coco Point Lodge, where Britain's Princess Margaret came on her honeymoon to stay two days, and lingered on for five. Ten-room Coco Point is so posh that its staff has a staff, quartered in a separate building, and for $85 a day the management will provide a couple with everything, including riding, hunting, fishing, and diving among the 70 known wrecks around the island...
...tend to accept the widespread taunt that "corruption" and "colonel" are synonymous. The officers have houses, cars, pensions, and a high standard of living to maintain. At the recent Asian games, one army colonel was arrested for embezzling $45,000 in ticket sales. Another colonel reportedly helicoptered over a posh Djkarta suburb, picked out a house he liked, alighted near by and ordered the tenants to clear...
...beauty even in explosions," intoned flamboyant Jewelry Designer Roger King, 26, whose flashy $3,400 brooch suggesting an A-bomb blast (mushrooms of diamonds rising from a ruby earth) won Britain's "Jewel of the Year" award. Then glaring out at of the the audience in a posh London showroom where his nuclear nugget was on display, King dropped another wee bomb by deploring "the tendency of upper-class women to wear dreary strands of pearls all the time." Totally unruffled was the conservatively dressed, pearl-wearing woman at whom his remarks were aimed: Lady Dorothy Macmillan, wife...
...Manhattan, Macy's set up a special wig department, which was jammed with more than 1,000 women a day clamoring for synthetic (all-Dynel) wigs, at $49.50. Helena Rubinstein christened a posh new room the Wig-Wig. Max Miller, president of the Joseph Fleischer custom wig company, opened ten new consulting rooms to handle the flood of buyers. Max Factor in Hollywood had to set up folding chairs in the halls to handle capacity crowds. The Elizabeth Arden Salon in Chicago extended its usual three-week wait on wig orders to two months...
While Ho prepared for his closing in Honolulu, Sheraton's President Ernest Henderson flew from Boston to New York and reserved five suites at Manhattan's posh Sheraton-East for the "principals" in his part of the closing. In both Honolulu and New York, representatives of the combine failed to show. Next day came word that Mrs. Felzer and Amalu were in Seattle-where Amalu had been hustled off to jail almost as soon as his plane landed...