Word: pecksniffian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...twelve Irish M.P.s were hauled from their seats by police when other efforts to eject them failed. In an attempt to make debate more seemly, Speakers of the past have banned "grossly insulting language" and the use of such words as villain, hypocrite, murderer, insulting dog, swine, Pecksniffian cant, cheat, stoolpigeon and bastard. In the 1880s, one Charles Bradlaugh was refused his seat because he was an avowed atheist. When Bradlaugh tried to take it anyway, he battled ten Bobbies to a draw until he fainted from his exertions...
...judge from the summary of editorial comment, sniffed the Pecksniffian New York Post, "the G.O.P. has clearly renominated Abraham Lincoln." The composite image of Republican Presidential Nominee Richard Milhous Nixon that emerged from the nation's press last week was hardly Lincolnesque. But with few exceptions, U.S. newspapers liked the way the Republicans ran their convention, ratified their choices, and cheered the first speeches in what looked to be a rousing good campaign. Said the Philadelphia Bulletin in an editorial: "They simply put the best foot forward...