Word: aleckism
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...advice of his aides, he held himself to a quieter, lower and more effective pitch (which also came across better on television). The chamber was tense and hushed as Austin spoke. All the faces around the Council table (except those of the Russians and the long, smart-aleck face of Yugoslavia's Ales Bebler) looked pleased; by the end Secretary General Trygve Lie wore a wide grin. Said Austin...
...report that a resolution regretting the dominant influence of the U.S. among the democratic nations was passed by the Oxford Union under the persuasion of [British Philosopher] C.E.M. Joad [TIME, June 12]. He is an irresponsible smart aleck, the measure of whose irresponsibility in attacking America may be gauged from the fact that he had the effrontery to write a book about the U.S. entitled The Babbitt Warren [Harper, 1927] at a time when he had never even visited this country...
Fired by both Chesterfield and CBS, Godfrey headed back to Washington. Even there, it seemed his magic had gone. "I had gotten to thinking like a smart-aleck Broadway showman, and people don't want Broadway every day. But little by little, I regained the humility I had lost. I got back to sunsets, fishing, horses. My interest in people returned. The show improved, clients were pleased, and fans began to increase...
...just as fond of and just as loyal to my military aide as I am to the high brass, and I want you to distinctly understand that any S.O.B. who thinks he can cause any of those people to be discharged by me by some smart-aleck statement over the air or in the paper, he has got another think coming...
Sometimes reporters could not even pass the time drinking, thanks to Hearst's smart-aleck Columnist George Dixon. He had printed a giggly prediction that the Truman train would ignore local liquor laws. After that, for several dreadful days, the bar had been locked up in dry states...