Word: alecks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...suggestion for smart-aleck Reader Smith is a swift kick in the pants...
...Harper evidently does not like having his Sovereigns "de-bunked." Had he read TIME as long as the writer, he would have known, 1) that TIME does not always go abroad to be "raw," "fresh" and "Smart Aleck," 2) that TIME, in its wisdom, has never hesitated to get under people's skins...
Distinctly Smart Aleck...
Just a few lines to let you know I am well fed up with your line of Smart Aleck stuff. Your article on Great Britain [King George VI] in the May 15 issue is about as raw, fresh, uncalled for and unfriendly as anything I've read...
...this. Your magazine contains no news, we read all the news in the newspapers a week or so ahead of your issues. Your comments do not amount to a row of pins, after we have seen enough _of them to size them up. Your attitude is distinctly Smart Aleck and Puffed Up-"Swelled Head," so to speak...