Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Some days ago the New York Herald Tribune characterized H. L. Mencken as a "Professional Smart Aleck," a phrase which aptly describes those who write such stuff as "Came an eagle" and "a rival musnud of learning" in TIME, April 12, pp. 33, 34... Let me remind you that this sort of thing has been going on for two* years, and...ceases to be funny...
...various little musical shows which spring up as summer approaches, in the hope of emulating the success of the Grand Street Follies and the Garrick Gaieties. One or two of the players, all unblessed by previous prominence, were markedly adept; one or two of the sketches were smart...
...Emory Buckner, Federal attorney of New York, whose dour padlocking of some of Manhattan's most famous places of carousal has won him fame in the smart set, was kept longest before the committee. He reiterated his views that prohibition could be enforced only by the erection of an entirely new judicial system on a gigantic scale, and the expenditure of vaster millions...
...incurable vulgarity of H. L. Mencken is mixed with a considerable amount of business acumen. . . . He has made his living for years by smart jibes at the common mind. Nothing is easier to write than this form of humor. He is completely alien to America. . . the penny-dreadful of the intelligentsia. . . a professional smart-Aleck...
...Upshaw will surely represent me when I am an American. If only to cast a vote against Representative Celler (if I can) I would became one. He is such a smart Alec! Wasn't it he who didn't hesitate to refer to the Prince of Wales as "chasing but not chaste" ? What a cowardly attack on a man who couldn't (or wouldn't) defend himself...