Word: posh
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ready cash in several other quarters last week as he continued the retrenchment program started to pay off his expensive short-term debt and complete his major projects under way. For more than $5,000,000, he sold his 200-year lease (with options) on Manhattan's posh St. Regis Hotel to Mexico's Cesar Balsa, 37, a onetime bellhop whose nine-hotel chain in Mexico City and Acapulco is the largest in Central America. The sale completed the financial legerdemain begun last February when Webb & Knapp bought the St. Regis for $14 million. Two months later...
...Nick's marriage to Isobel Tolland except that she had a miscarriage? How will "Chips" Lovell get on with Priscilla Tolland? The addicted reader can hardly wait. Meanwhile it would seem to be a safe bet that Narrator Nick Jenkins will be commissioned, like Author Powell, in a posh regiment (Powell was an officer, first in the Welch Regiment, then in intelligence), and will later continue, in London and in the vanishing English countryside, Powell's own course as gentleman of letters...
Hotel owners sadly concede that the posh days are past. Miami Beach has lost its appeal to the high-living free spenders, who now prefer the Caribbean and the Bahamas. Many hotel owners frankly admit that middle-class tourists and conventions are becoming the chief sources of income, and the spending is much less. Says one Miami Beach hotelman: "We used to get the boss; now we get the office manager and the hired help...
...Island, Belfast last week, joiners, painters, decorators and electricians were swarming over the newly launched, most luxurious superliner of Britain's maritime fleet. It is the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Co.'s 45,000-ton, $42 million superliner, Canberra. Sailing for P. & O., which coined the word "posh,"-the 740-ft. Canberra will be one of the poshest ships afloat, with a cruising speed of 27½ knots, air conditioning throughout, and closed-circuit television for passengers while the ship is at sea. Designed with an aluminum superstructure to save weight, and engines aft to give passengers more...
...Because of the heat, P. & O. put VIPs in cabins on the relatively cool port side on the journey to the Orient, on the starboasd side on the way home. P. & O. officials soon shortened "port out, starboard home" to "posh." used the word to describe their luxury facilities...