Word: ilk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...running a story in which, referring to the Big Green eleven as the Eastern Boxing Champions, it notes that opposition stars consistently left the field under sudden and violent circumstances while playing the Hanover boys. It listed Dick Clasby and John Culver as victims of assaults of this ilk...
Each week Al Capp, the creator and continuing source of life of L'il Abner, presides over a half hour television program which proceeds on the premise that there is something inherently entertaining in five people sitting before cameras and talking. Doubtful as the premise is, shows of this ilk enjoy considerable popularity on TV schedules, probably because they require no sets, little talent, and to outside appearances, no organization and rehearsal...
Mike Todd's Peep Show is another of this ilk. The finale is indicative of the whole show 50 girls 50 in a bubble bath...
...reported that this is Cuppy's major work--the publishers obviously presuming that writers of Cuppy's ilk have such things--and that he had been laboring on it for sixteen years. If this is the case, one must feel very sorry for Will Cuppy. He amassed a marvelous amount of information on his subjects and their relatives, but he has put it to no good...
Remington didn't remember McConnell, he told the committee. "I met Bridgman," he added. "If he was a secret Communist I did not know it ... He must have assumed from my [labor union] associations that I was a member of his ilk. I never was . . . And when I say never I mean never, whether...