Word: alecks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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They slapped me around in the beginning. I wasn't a "good boy," but as time went on, I learned it didn't pay to be a smart aleck. There were mock trials. I said, "I will not answer any of your questions." The next day they marched me to a large hall. They said, "Here is a piece of paper. If you don't answer these questions by the count of 10, we'll shoot you." They put a gun to my head and started counting...
...best-written on TV, but they are certainly easier to sit through than back-to-back episodes of Jesse. Fortunately, both Maggie and Oh Baby work well enough as soap operas to make up for the fact that they feature unfunny therapy sessions, bad renditions of drunkenness and smart-aleck nannies...
...hear he's got $300 million tied up in those two rooms." If you use conspicuous capitalization as your principal marketing tool, the real point of a $300 million art collection is that it costs $300 million. The occasional visitor who's provoked into making smart-aleck remarks about the pillows, like the occasional visitor who has a run of luck on the slots, can be charged off to the cost of doing business...
...Karen Sisco ever got hired as a marshal, and how she retains her job, is an utter mystery. She is a flippant smart-aleck who's rude to her boss as she single-mindedly pursues her own unorthodox goals on the job (sound like any of this summers other bigscreen federal agents?). Worse, her goals usually have to do with her personal life; several references to her earlier personal life suggest that Sisco uses her job as a social club...
...magazine is a living thing. The child that Briton Hadden and Henry Luce brought into the world in March 1923 was squally, bratty, brash. The new smart aleck--its voice distinctive, sophomoric, self-assured--thrived, almost from the start: born lucky. The magazine sailed through the 1920s as if the decade were a breezy shakedown cruise...