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Such front-page ear-boxings have earned the determinedly vigilant Journal the title of Milwaukee's "conscience" or "Dutch Uncle." Though meant as praise, such phrases only serve to rile up the Journal's boss, Harry J. Grant, choleric, determinedly vigilant chairman of the Journal's board of directors. Says Grant : "Damn it, I'm not anybody's Dutch Uncle. I'm just in the newspaper business . . ." Journalist Grant's devotion to the news had brought handsome returns. Last week Media Records reported that the evening Journal (circ...
...frankly looked down on anyone who was not a "gentleman." He loved good company, drank with relish but not to excess (the capacity of New York City's "toapers" astonished and disgusted him), and never missed a pretty face or a stayless figure. If anyone could rile him more thoroughly than a long-winded bore, it was a religious fanatic, and the inns of colonial America seemed to be cluttered with both types...
...takes an awful lot to rile Stuart H. Bartle...
Wings of the Storm. Tomorrow was bound to be stormier. The platform still had to be voted on. The party's worried leaders had done their best to produce something which, if it failed to please everyone, at least would not rile anyone very much. They had kept in touch with Harry Truman, whose cautious advice had been to keep the specific points of his so-called "civil rights" program out of the platform...
...essential part of the act is to rile the umpire, and in doing so to rile the other team. This is not considered out-of-the-way in Brooklyn, where it was a custom to chant Three Blind Mice as the umpires walked on field...