Word: byng
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...truth is that Bobby Hull used to be a good-natured fellow who wouldn't hurt a flea. But people were taking advantage of him. Things came to a head last year, when Bobby picked up only 32 min. in penalties and won the Lady Byng Memorial Trophy for sportsmanship-although he was hooked, held, tripped and checked so unmercifully that he missed nine games with injuries. Healthy, Hull scored 32 goals in his first 35 games; hobbled, he scored only seven goals the rest of the season, lost the scoring title to Teammate Stan Mikita. The Black Hawks...
...imposing the onerous Townshend duties on the colonies. Namier traces his troubles to a tyrannical father: "A rebel towards his father and his political chiefs, he turned into a heavy father when acting for the mother country in relation to her offspring." There was the compulsive traveler, John Byng, who complained about every place he visited because, basically, he did not like people. One day in 1789 when he was in a particularly bleak mood, he lambasted everything about England he could think of. Says Namier: "Had this been written about France in June 1789, how much would it have...
Dandyism flourished, exquisite and exclusive, until the passage of the Reform Bill in 1832 (which shifted the balance of power from the Lords to the Commons). Such men as "Poodle" Byng, ''Apollo" Raikes, and the gorgeous Count D'Orsay followed or improved upon Brummell's styles; collars, stiff with whalebone, rose above the ears, cravats required pounds of starch, and coats became bosomy with padding. French aristocrats, in a wave of Anglophilia, embraced the fad-although, the author notes, they confused the thin-wristed dandy with his county cousin, the fox-hunting buck...