Word: ilk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...steals a London stockbroker's dignity steals practically his purse. Last week the City chuckled at the plight of William Lewis Rowland Paul Sebastian Blennerhassett, wealthy Throgmorton Street stockbroker, addicted like all his ilk to eating lobster salad at Pimm's. In King's Bench Division before Hon. Mr. Justice Branson, outraged Broker Blennerhassett brought suit for libel against a vendor of the silly jerk-on-a-string tops called yo-yos. The yo-yo man had advertised that a man named Blennerhassett had gone stark, raving mad from diddling with...
...those of us who write the news, it seems eminently desirable that there should be a special word to designate the perennial botherations of a stripe that can be really expressed only as an ilk, who, when their published statements get them into trouble, try to worm out by declaring loudly that they have been misquoted...
...whom the use of the mails would be denied because they had accepted "donations" from hopeful aspirants to the Drake fortune. Oddly enough, 100 letters at once reached the Post Office Department from Northwestern farmers protesting the issuance of the order. The Department calculated that from them and their ilk, $1,300,000 had been bled by Drake racketeers. "There has never been any record," said Solicitor Horace J. Donnelly, turning over his evidence to the Department of Justice, "of any unsettled or undistributed Sir Francis Drake estate...
...characters, from bacillus to the "sententious anchorite," are but the assorted speaking trumpets through which G. B. S. is announcing to the world his opinions on the war, the League of Nations, the excellencies of a vegetarian diet, Einstein, France and her "security," and H. G. Wells and his ilk...
...Jakie Wirth's to call out for a "seidel of light" with which to wash down rye bread and cheese. Those many who scan these lines may have already been to and disliked these places: they may go and dislike them, but there are many of both ilk who will concur with the opinions of the Vagabond. And whatever the reactions of the Vagabond he himself has even now paid off a debt long over due the creditors, a debt of placid enjoyment which stretches far into the past and lights the misty reaches of the future...