Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gentleman and Hoosier, I resent your publishing an article in your Feb. 27 issue about "Blabbin Bill" and placing it under the heading Indiana. If you want to make Senator William Jenner's followers ashamed of themselves for supporting such a smart aleck-all right, but why embarrass the rest...
Movius termed the newspapers' connection of Hurzeler's discovery and the Darwinian theory "completely and absolutely unjustified." He referred to the reports of Hurzeler's lectures as a "silly kind of smart-aleck journalism...
Under the leadership of Virginia, which presented an idea, not a plan, they have ridden off like headless horsemen into the woods of nullification-even though they call it interposition-and in the pursuit of every evasion of the decree that slick, if not smart, lawyers may devise. Nobody has proposed firing upon Sumter again, but the spirit of secession is there: secession from the moral conscience of the rest of the country and indeed of the world that is giving men of color -who far outnumber us of the white race-their civil rights, their right to be free...
Numerous admirable characters visit Gary's House. There is Captain Scoop -such a hell of a dainty guy (by a boy's standards) that he refuses to sit on the kitchen table before he has put "a piece of clean drawer paper under him." There is a smart lad called Red Cheeks, who has been taught by experience that it is futile to drop snowballs down chimneys because they only "get stuck in the bend," whereas a bucketful of water meets with no such obstacle. There is Tutor Pinto Free man, who would have been a good educator...
Your Feb. 6 article on the late H. L. Mencken was excellent. Very erudite people probably will always go on recognizing him as a literary genius, but from your account, and others, I think he must have been a rude, discourteous smart aleck...