Word: ilk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ensuing melee, the phonies and the realies square off and pair off in what might be called drawers-room comedy. House Party is much like The Awful Truth, My Man Godfrey, and other films of that happy age and ilk, and probably the only reason Hollywood scouts have merely nibbled at the book till now is that they get the sensation of already having seen the movie...
...stern judgment. Why must so-called "evangelism" always be thus divorced from the Gospel of Christ, which clearly and consistently manifests the true character of God as love? By His own acknowledgment, Christ came not to judge the world, but to save the world. Billy Graham and his ilk purportedly lead to Christ's saving thousands of human "souls," but let us pray that Christ (love) will eventually save the Billy Grahams...
...precisely his restraint and respectability that make Eastland a far more dismaying phenomenon than Vardaman and his ilk ever were. When an old-style Southern politician made an unvarnished appeal to racial hatred, it was possible to dismiss it as a coldly cynical maneuver to get the poor white vote; it was obvious that the decent, educated white people of the South did not feel that way. But when James Eastland soberly proclaims his undying opposition to integrated schools, he is obviously speaking from a profound conviction, and his voice is the authentic voice of most of the South...
...after a Negro was lynched in Maryland's Eastern Shore town of Salisbury, the late Baltimore Sage H. L. Mencken, exploding in Baltimore's Evening Sun, hurled a carboy of acid across Chesapeake Bay at the lynchers and their ilk. Sample corrosives: "The Eastern Shore Kultur ... an Alsatia of morons . . . ignorant and ignoble minds." Maryland's state senate recently held a roll call on a resolution expressing "the sorrow of the General Assembly of Maryland over the passing of Henry Louis Mencken." It passed, not unanimously as such resolutions usually do, but by a vote...
...picture of "Mr. Democrat" was most appropriate. It used to be Pendergast peering over Truman's shoulder; now it's Tammany Hall's Boss De Sapio. All are of the same ilk and bilk. When Truman complains, "We have lost heavily among the millions of uncommitted people in Asia," he seems to have forgotten under whose administration it was that the Chinese Commies were called "merely agrarian reformers." There are thousands of American casualties of Korea who weren't nearly so happy on "Harry's Night...