Word: peccadillos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...University attends a Wolff review, he is giving his benediction to the tutoring racket. It is bad enough that Harvard is indifferent to the evils; but it is infinitely worse when an official representative condones them. Mr. Bacon's ignorance is hardly a valid excuse. But perhaps his peccadillo did grow out of the belief that establishments like Wolff's are legitimate tutoring enterprises. There is a common attitude hereabouts that tutoring accords with accepted educational theory and practice. This attitude assumes that, while there are some vicious practices in the Square, most of the work is entirely justified...
...every cinema fan magazine about every child actor is whether or not the child actor is "unspoiled." Equally invariable is the fan magazine answer: No. Whether or not the Mauchs are unspoiled, time will tell. Tricking people about their identity, however, is by no means the only Mauch peccadillo. Two years ago, when Bobby was sick, the Mauch twins got a chemistry set. With it they have since compounded a mixture of ink and ketchup for making spots on bedspreads; an ink spot remover, for removing the spots; and a rotten egg extract, for harmlessly discommoding din ner guests...
...gown Sir Boyd Merriman,* presiding in Court last week, fussed about, patiently searching for some peccadillo or infraction. A small one would testify to his conscientiousness and not impede dismissal of the intervention. Suddenly he fastened upon the fact that Mrs. Simpson, although she had a flat in London, got her decree nisi out at rural Ipswich. Last week the judge badgered her Empire-famed and highly paid counsel, Norman Birkett, K. C., upon this point...
...Conference to which are also invited Britain, France, Germany, Italy and Belgium? As these questions emerged in debate, Captain Eden handled them with not much more vigor than the tailor's dummy some Europeans uncharitably consider him to be.* The rearming of Helgoland he glossed over as German "peccadillo," adding: "Individual matters of this kind, though they cannot be passed unobserved, should not be raised at the moment"-i. e., not until "Machiavelli-&-soda" has seen what he can do in Berlin...
...Evelyn Chandler, a statuesque stage beauty some six feet tall. His wife is the daughter of London's frequently arrested night club queen, Mrs. Kate Meyrick. Lord de Clifford's chief previous legal difficulty was for "giving false information" in order to obtain his marriage license. This peccadillo carried a possible penalty of seven years in jail. London's Lord Mayor took a romantic view of the case in his capacity of magistrate, not only let Lord de Clifford off with a fine of $250 but gave him a fortnight's grace to find the fifty...