Word: ilk
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...book takes the form of a long letter to Cartoonist Clarence Day Jr., in which Mr. Ward exposes a great many exhibitions of thobbing, past and present: Upton Sinclair and his reforming ilk; all Moral Laws and Categorical Imperatives, since they involve a thing called "conscience" unknown to pure science; all sociological dialectics; all philosophical disquisitions and systems., even the most materialistic, since they all promise but never perform modifications of the genus Homo; all religions, calling as they do for the exercise of powers unknown to physics, mathematics and biology; all psychology?even behaviorism, from which the "psyche...
...removed from mediaeval romance, this is the twentieth-century idyll of rather grubby people. They have the small virtues of their ilk, well exemplified by the excellent Mrs. Nodden, and withal are honest, kindly, and thoroughly bourgeoisie. In spite of some seeming inconsistencies, they are clearly depicted, and the story of their very English, their very middle-class, mutual relations pulls its own weight. In these days of morbid writing, it is a pleasure to find a book whose pages leave one with an assurance of the existence and eternal value of simple goodness...
...this film for some people. But Mr. Turpin is one of the few actors who are incomprehensibly absent from the screen much of the time. The play is not, however, a cross-eyed comedy. It is a love story with a steel-mill background and fair enough of its ilk...
...Judge Gary, of the United States Steel Corporation, Schwab of Bethlehem, Rockefeller, Ford, and others of their ilk, if they had known a little football in their younger years, would have made excellent head coaches." This statement is set forth in an article by P. E. Dutcher '08, manager of the University eleven in '1907, in the current issue of the Alumni Bulletin...
...Right, and means that Premier Painleve can no longer rely on occasional help from the Bloc National but must sink or swim with the Left. In that quarter he can of course count on Herriot's Radical-Socialists, since a majority of the new Cabinet are of that ilk. But it is considered significant that several Socialists, notably Louis Loucheur, refused portfolios- which leaves their party free to overthrow the new Cabinet at pleasure...