Word: aleckism
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...That Little Smart Aleck." Dreams came easy in Louisville's West End. "Why can't I be rich?" Cassius once asked his father. His father touched him on one pecan-colored hand and said. "Look there. That's why you can't be rich." But at twelve. Cassius got his "wheel." It was a shiny $60 bicycle, and he proudly pedaled off to a fair at the Columbia Gym downtown. When the show was over, the bike was gone. In tears, Cassius sought out Policeman Joe Martin. "If I find the kid who stole my bike...
Autobiographical Confessions. Even in his past, there is a lot to fret about. He describes his early self as "show-off," "smart aleck," "clod" and "wisecracking punk," worriedly says, "I'm sure my friends thought I was a pansy. I sculpted in wood and wrote short stories...
...staffers of the labor rackets committee and the most loyal supporters of Bobby Kennedy. But the reaction of his adversaries is foaming. Jimmy Hoffa turns purple at the mere mention of the Kennedy name. "Bobby Kennedy," he says, in a compassionate moment, "is a young, dimwitted, curly-headed smart aleck." Says an attorney who opposed him: "I might as well leave town if Jack Kennedy is elected President." Says Bobby: "It was like playing Notre Dame every...
...have their say. Former Governor Thomas E. Dewey of New York, blasting the acceptance speech of Senator John F. Kennedy '40 at the Democratic Convention two weeks ago, said that it made him "wonder whether he's grown up enough to be President." He criticized Kennedy for his "smart-aleck attack on the President and Vice-President of the United States," and charged that Kennedy had "associated himself" with Lincoln, Alexander the Great, etc., in his reply to former President Truman...
Soon Rooney became maudlin, talked about his good marital fortunes and his wonderful children. His sentences might have been composed by Casey Stengel. Rooney: "But I again sound like tongue-in-cheek I seem somewhat as a smart aleck about something that's very so so wonderful." Paar: "I think you're loaded." Rooney: "I'm making a puzzling situation out of myself to you." Paar (to audience): "Don't stir him up or we're dead...