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Only the local Dary Crockets will appear on the range since postal matches are conducted by mailing the five highest scores which the ten man team ares to the Northeastern College Rile League...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sharpshooters Hit Firing Line Today in Two Postal Matches | 2/14/1947 | See Source »

Houdini's method is to rile his opponent by musical insults. He won his first war by being so insulting to two opponents at the same time that, after 45 minutes, they stopped to congratulate him on his virtuosity. His toughest battle was against the old Master, Lord Executor, until he found a fatal weakness to sing about: Executor's big toe had just popped out of his canvas sneaker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: King of Calypso | 8/26/1946 | See Source »

Hollywood thought Hope conceited when he first arrived, today merely finds him a little vain. He is well liked, easy to work with, hard to rile, so fast with gags he is almost fatiguing. He can never resist one, recently phoned a Hollywood friend all the way from London to wheeze: "I saw Churchill last night-a great news-reel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Hope for Humanity | 9/20/1943 | See Source »

Uncle Rollin ran his callused fingers through his white hair, spat and said: "Well, Rile, I don't know nothin' about a college. But I know one thing. There must be a heap to larn at college or else your Andy larns mighty slow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Dr. Andy's Crop | 11/16/1942 | See Source »

Yerex' planes will continue to fly and to rile Pan Am. For Yerex has already served the U.S. Army too well to be grounded-Americanized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: How Much Americanization? | 11/16/1942 | See Source »

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