Word: alec
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...Upshaw will surely represent me when I am an American. If only to cast a vote against Representative Celler (if I can) I would became one. He is such a smart Alec! Wasn't it he who didn't hesitate to refer to the Prince of Wales as "chasing but not chaste" ? What a cowardly attack on a man who couldn't (or wouldn't) defend himself...
...London and indeed throughout England the most widespread sympathy was expressed for the families of the 68 officers and men who went down with the M1. It was recalled that her Commander, Lieutenant Alec M. Carrie, had been married only eleven months. A Mrs. Bertie Jones, wife of one of the submarine's petty officers, was harkened to with indignation when she asserted that her husband had often told her that "the M1's machinery frequently went wrong...
Thank You. John Golden's home town idyl of a minister and his flapper visitor from Paris is hereby done over for the Cinema. With Alec Francis as the minister, Jacqueline Logan as the girl, and George O'Brien as the man she marries, it makes good routine amusement. Never a great drama for the intellectuals, it has been further boiled down for movie fans...
...want any smart Alec tryin' to teach mah child that man descended from a tadpole or a monkey. . . . When a man gets so smart that he cain't believe the Bible, he's jest too smart to know that he's a fool...
MacDonald Smith is one of the Smith Brothers. No bearded rapscallion he, seller of sugar-coated cough drops, but the most brilliant member of a famed golfing family, the Smiths: Alec, George, Jim, Willie,* MacDonald. Thirty, years ago, Alec, the eldest Smith, came to the U.S., was three times open runner-up, once champion, won 19 important championships between 1898 and 1914, had among his pupils Jerry Travers, Marion Hollins, Glenna Collett, Reggie Lewis. MacDonald, the youngest, was famed at 15, played extraordinary golf until, in 1914, he went to California, disappeared from competition. Recently, he returned. When playing...