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Elmer
[ el-mer ]
noun
- a male given name: from Old English words meaning “noble” and “famous.”
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The psychologists who served there included two officers, James Elmer Mitchell and John Bruce Jessen.
I was driving some back roads near Elmer, N.J., when I came on a kid carrying a dead dog.
Check out this 2003 clip in which this soft-spoken Jewish pischer was transformed into Elmer Gantry.
“You win by fighting—and yeah, by punishing those who break ranks in the face of the enemy,” Elmer tells a protégé.
At first Lear thought of making a feature film satirizing Swaggart and his ilk—sort of an updated Elmer Gantry.
Elmer Spiker interrupted to inquire whether the turtles I had seen were "black-legs, red-legs, or yaller-legs."
Elmer Spiker, mine host of the inn, was huddled close to the stove, and was reading by the light of a lamp.
Having evolved this sage remark, Elmer twisted back to his old position and raised the paper.
The suggestion seemed a likely one, so I interrupted the flow of Elmer's troubled thoughts to say good-night, and went out.
This was too direct a slap at Elmer Spiker to pass unnoticed; Elmer was too old an arguer to use any ponderous weapon in return.
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