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...however, am so accustomed to the style of TIME that I consider it a dear old friend and don't accuse it of being smart-aleck. There is an intelligent lady here who cancelled her subscription to TIME because of certain statements in it quite some time ago in reference to the Jews which she construed to savor of antiSemitism. The trouble is that she, as well as others who accuse TIME of other things, is still a stranger to this weekly. When I first became a subscriber I, too, thought TIME to be smart-aleck and guilty...
Major Henry Lee Higginson married the daughter of the late great Naturalist Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz. Their son, Alexander ("Aleck") Henry Higginson is a famed foxhunter, divides his time between his 400-acre farm in South Lin- coln, Mass, and England where he is a Master of the Cattistock Hunt. His son, Henry Lee Higginson, is also a gentleman of leisure...
...surrounded by her natural jewels, may be amused by the idea that the younger generation is any longer a practical object for the world's concern, Mr. Macy will find few male enemies by his treatment of woman as trouble and mischief-maker. Quoting, and later characterizing as "smart-aleck," Max Beerbohm's description of the militant suffragettes as the "army of the unenjoyed," he finds behind the W. C. T. U. and similar organizations the unconscious desire to ruin man's pleasure be it good or bad. The godliness of trouble-making women he finds already attacked from...
...Died. Aleck Smith, 58, bluff oldtime golf professional, U. S. open champion in 1906 and 1910, adviser of Robert Tyre ("Bobby") Jones, Glenna Collett, Jerome ("Jerry") Travers, Mrs. Alexa Stirling Fraser; after a month's treatment in a private sanitorium; at Baltimore...
Bushnell stressed the fact that "twelve men for woman, God help us are still twelve human beings who react to honesty and chicanery just as we all do. In testifying before them, avoid the 'smart-aleck' attitude, the dogged attitude, and nervous hesitancy. Keep your temper. A clever cross-examiner will draw you out, emphasize your faults, and so discredit your testimony in the eyes of the jury. But the policeman armed with the truth has a 90 per cent advantage over any crooked lawyer...