Daily Mailer

English Etymology From en w:Daily Mail er occupation. Noun 1 en rare A journalist for the Daily Mail, a British tabloid newspaper. en The Parliamentary Debates 1899 263 1 if the Committee consider they have substantial interests or views which deserve to be heard. We wish, however, to exclude blackmailers and “Daily Mailers” from this inquiry. en The Labour Monthly 8 1926 80 They got a real professional pressman and set going a paper with a miserable two-faced, bandy-legged policy, while a group of amateur Left Wingers and Communists set going the first Daily Herald with its magnificent record as a workers’ fighting organ. But the Right-Wing officials of the Labour Movement learned nothing by the experience, and so in place of Lansbury they installed Fyfe. He played the man to his trades union masters with the perfection which would be expected from a Daily Mailer, though he didn’t always love his new bosses, as witness his resentment when Robert Williams was appointed business manager en w:The Sackbut X 1930 44 He has reached the point where his idlest words are taken by Daily Mailers for the precious dogmas of a beloved sage. en The Legislative Assembly Debates 1934 3257 The blackmailer produces the whitemailer and the whitemailer and blackmailer develop into a sort of a “Daily Mailer”, sensational, making your flesh creep. en w:Shane Leslie American Wonderland: Memories of Four Tours in the United States of America (1911-1935) London Michael Joseph Ltd. 1936 36 Only two tourist books have the merit of preserving the real impression of the moment out of hundreds written by Englishmen: Sir Lepel Griffin in the ’eighties; G. W. Steevens, the Daily Mailer of the ’nineties. en Margaret Morris My Galsworthy Story London Peter Owen 1967 96 For Love of Beasts will come before long I hope the savage Daily Mailers will be made more savage. en Timothy D’Arch Smith Love in Earnest: Some Notes on the Lives and Writings of English ‘Uranian’ Poets from 1889 to 1930 London Routledge & Kegan Paul 1970 209 0 7100 6730 5 And I can prove it! But not to Daily Mailers, thank you!