Word: accepter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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According to the Times-Call, the 7½ Ib. rainbow trout caught by Publisher Fred G. Bonfils of the Denver Post and glorified in that exaggerating sheet, was a tame trout named Elmer "known to hundreds of visitors to the Miller preserve, from whom he would accept remnants of lunch, coming half out of the water to eat out of their hands. A friendly and sociable trout was Elmer and he did tricks for the tourists including a watery rendition of 'Sweet Adeline' when his crumbs were soaked in the drippings of the picnic flask...
...such true bill was returned. Before Judge Wilkerson appeared the foreman of the grand jury to announce that it had prepared a report on its investigation but had returned no indictment. Snapped Judge Wilkerson: "I'm not interested in reports, only in indictments," refused to accept the report. The jury then went to Federal Judge John P. Barnes and was immediately discharged. Later the fore man was seen emerging from the office of U. S. District Attorney George Emmerson Q. Johnson, looking uncomfortably red in the face...
...make the offer?cash on delivery of deed, etc. Will Fred Britten accept...
...tied him up and held him for six days. During those six days friends of Mr. Lynch had appealed to no less a person than Chief Gangster Alphonse ("Scarface") Capone to effect his release. Mr. Capone, deprecating kidnapping, promised to do all he could to persuade the kidnappers to accept $50,000 instead of the $250,000 they demanded, took trusteeship of the $50,000. Unappreciative Chief Investigator Patrick Roche immediately ordered Mr. Capone arrested. A squad of detectives rushed to Capone's hotel. Capone was not there...
When Mr. Harvey intimated that he was too old to run for President, a great wrangle developed at the convention. Thereupon Mr. Harvey changed his mind, declared: "Rather than see the party fall into the hands of those who might disrupt it, I the nomination accept." Cheers echoed throughout the Ozark hills. For Vice President the Liberty Party nominated one Andrae Nardskog, 45, president of the Southwest Water League of California...