Word: aleckism
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...agrarian economy, magazines (The Southern Review et al.) and poetry societies whose interests are about equally divided between the high brow and the horny hand. To this rebel activity Caroline Gordon has contributed a five-generation family chronicle (Penhally), a novel glorifying the unindustrialized purity of a sportsman (Aleck Maury: Sportsman), a recent Civil War novel (None Shall Look Back)-thus following the approved regionalist tactics of firing from the safely concealed ambush of the South's past...
...Bagby, Jr. '39; James W. Cassidy '39; Richard M. Chadbourne '39; William P. Everts, Jr. '39; DeWitt Fischman '39; James C. Kernan '38; John F. Lucey, Jr. '39; H. W. Martin '38; R. B. Mudge '39; J. Stanley Nants, Jr. '39; John H. Perry '39; Rodney T. Robertson '39; Aleck L. Smith '39; and Stuart M. Wyeth...
...most death notices still refer to God, but last week a fast-gaining formula was to advertise that the German deceased "died in the faith of Adolf Hitler." The Cologne Court of Appeals upheld last week the decision of the lower court which recently jail-sentenced a Cologne smart aleck who replied to a greeting of "Heil Hitler!" by saying "Heil London!" According to the Court of Appeals, this is a "gross misdemeanor" like spitting on the Cross...
Forty years ago in New Orleans, the late, great Sarah Bernhardt, with Theodore Owen as guide, went alligator hunting in nearby swamps where she picked up a 6-in. baby, called him Aleck, presented him to Owen. Owen built an alligator pool in his garden, house-broke Aleck, cherished him ever after. Last week Owen was dead and most of New Orleans had forgotten Sarah Bernhardt, when Aleck, grown ten feet long and weighing 300 pounds, was auctioned...
...Smart Aleck" Sirs: . . . You better leave town after quoting from that smart aleck, Erskine Caldwell, because the Chamber of Commerces south of the Potomac will want to tar and feather you, and ride you on a rail for your dastardly inference that folks are starving in the South. I'll have you to know that we might have illiteracy, hookworm, inertia, lynchings, murder, pellagra and malnutrition, but never "starvation." They can starve in Russia if they want to (or if Hearst wants them to), but they better not starve in the South, because the Chamber of Commerce...