Daily Mailer

plural Daily Mailers

1. rareA journalist for the Daily Mail, a British tabloid newspaper.

   For Love of Beasts will come before long I hope the savage Daily Mailers will be made more savage.

   1967, Margaret Morris, My Galsworthy Story, London: Peter Owen, page 96

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   […] 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.

   1899, The Parliamentary Debates, page 263, column 1

   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 […]

   1926, The Labour Monthly, volume 8, page 80

   He has reached the point where his idlest words are taken by Daily Mailers for the precious dogmas of a beloved sage.

   1930, The Sackbut, volume X, page 44

   The blackmailer produces the whitemailer and the whitemailer and blackmailer develop into a sort of a “Daily Mailer”, sensational, making your flesh creep.

   1934, The Legislative Assembly Debates, page 3257

   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.

   1936, Shane Leslie, American Wonderland: Memories of Four Tours in the United States of America (1911-1935), London: Michael Joseph Ltd., page 36