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...Peccant Peck Sir: Apropos of the Catholic "venial kiss" discussion | Oct. 8]: one imagines countless exchanges like this on Irish lanes: "Gi! Said a me lad a to a venial lass, kiss." "To Hell wi' ye, son. I kiss mortal, like this...
Here's Your Muffler. The impeccable Jeeves and the peccant Bertie Wooster, P.G.'s most famous characters, do not figure in these stories. Instead, there is the terrible Lord Bodsham, "The Curse of the Eastern Counties," and his dimwit daughter, Mavis Peasmarch. There is Freddie Widgeon, "a pretty clear-thinking chap [who] realized that you can't go strewing babies all over the place"; and Horace Bewstridge, an indomitable golfer who "clasped [Vera Witherby] to his bosom, using the interlocking grip...
Fritz Kuhn, porky, peccant (embezzling) ex-Bund leader, ex-U.S. citizen, got a free freighter trip to Germany along with some 500 other deported compatriots...
...Alfred Duff Cooper, impeccable British Ambassador to France, gave a peccant Riviera innkeeper a nice demonstration of the retort diplomatic. The Ambassador, his Lady, and a motoring party of six friends lunched at the inn, got a bill for 16,000 francs (about $320). The Ambassador wrote his name on the bill, tucked it in an envelope addressed to the regional authority on price control, and called the headwaiter. "Would you be so kind as to send this," he murmured, arose, and departed...
...Buffalo Mary Kascmarek, 2, was placed by some older children in a cardboard packing-case near the curb. Along came the garbage-wagon; the garbageman hoisted case, Mary Kascmarek & all, into the peccant swill. When the wind blew back his wagon tarpaulin, the garbageman discovered Mary Kascmarek, wiped her off, took her home...