Word: peccant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...