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Word: ilk (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...these were not jittery times, we might safely ignore windbags of the Coughlin or Heflin ilk, who have a tendency to explode of their own inflammable gaseous content -or are discarded by a weary public to the obscurity ash heap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 13, 1939 | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

...doing and does it anyway. He is a double menace to society-in plan and in deed. Hang him, If man does not enjoy free will, he is not responsible. He is then a monster-a product of a Frankenstein civilization. Destroy him-before he breeds his ilk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 6, 1939 | 2/6/1939 | See Source »

...side, it must be denied that a large section of the students regard the people in the way the Progressive charges. It is more probable that most of them have little opinion one way or another about the Cantabridgians save after infrequent goading by Don Quixote and his ilk. It is reasonable to believe that the tension between Harvard and its community arises from less serious reasons than class feeling and ideological cleavage. The relation between the Council's attempts to divert attention from the abnormal tax rate and the value of the University property should be studied...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FAIR AND WARMER | 12/14/1938 | See Source »

...THINGS ARE-Albert Maltz -International ($2}. Violent stories of the "proletarian" ilk. Best: Man on the Road, about a hitchhiking miner who has caught silicosis in Gauley Bridge. W. Va. and cannot decide whom to blame...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: Recent Books: Aug. 22, 1938 | 8/22/1938 | See Source »

...many moons, Josephine Baker's "Princesse Tam-Tam" had its American premiere at the Fine Arts yesterday afternoon. Miss Baker, who returns to her native land in celluloid. left St. Louis in the early Twenties to become and to remain the cabaret sensation of Europe. Like most of her ilk, she cannot sing, but she can dance, twisting her dusky body into unbelievable contortions in time to primitive rhythm. Though it smacks more of Harlem than of Africa, locale of the picture, her "La Conga" dance alone is enough to put the picture over...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 3/17/1938 | See Source »

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