Word: aleck
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...grateful, as any author would be, for the picture and for the space given to my book [Design for Power; TIME, Jan. 5]. But the review was a nasty and smart-aleck piece on a book which even the New York Times finds "earnest," "illuminating," and the best "overall interpretative survey in print." I do not question TIME'S right to print, if it chooses, in the interest of the general amusement, such a wholly misleading and unfair review of a serious book. I feel, however, that in such cases the author is entitled to a few lines...
...cannot approve of your modeling your style after that of TIME. It is cheap, undignified, smart-aleck...
...Senator was "the biggest hog on Capitol Hill," another "a total loss-without insurance," another a "smart aleck." Libeled Senators breathed fire, whetted their knives for Neely's appointee...
...night, I remember," reminisced Colonel Apted, "back in them horse-and-buggy days, they took a smart aleck up into 29-30 Weld Hall and tied him up to the ceiling like a picture-by his thumbs. They let his toes just touch the window sill so he could give an occasional little jump to release the pressure. He was jumping pretty fast and howling like hell when we got there...
...suggestion for smart-aleck Reader Smith is a swift kick in the pants...