Word: ilk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...natural-born hell-raisers." The first thing our owner knows, there is "labor trouble" in the plant and he wonders why. His foremen don't know and his employment experts don't know. So far, the only means discovered by industry is to have one of my ilk-a Labor Spy-who will circulate among the men and find out just exactly what is on their minds and why. I'm not referring to labor unions; unions are only one phase of the labor espionage business and, until the past five years, a very minor part...
...introduces Simone Simon as a vocalist. She sings a thin, pleasing coloratura that will never become particularly popular, partially because she cannot hope to vie with her compatriot, Lily Pons, in this type of singing, partially because the public prefers the more throaty strains of Alice Faye and her ilk...
Christian Century had croaked the doom of Publisher Hearst's ilk in an editorial week before. An anti-Hearst committee persuaded 20th Century-Fox to cancel a proposed cinema about the Spanish revolution with Hearstian correspondent Hubert Renfro Knickerbocker as supervisor. The publisher's Presidential candidate had been historically swamped Nov. 3. At this juncture, William Randolph Hearst, whose instinct for ultimately landing right side up has seldom failed him in five decades of journalistic rough & tumble, began mending his fences...
...ultimate way out is of course, an endowment sufficiently large to eradicate the necessity of high priced football tickets and the dependence of Athletic Associations on gate receipts. Meantime, one-lunged writers of Mr. Tunis' ilk should take a look around and check their facts before pounding their typewriters...
...moronic faces your candids show fall prey every two years to the guileful exhortations of the Cole Bleases of different shades but all of the same ilk; tickling voters vanity; telling them they are the salt of the earth, the only remaining pure Anglo-Saxons here...