Word: beckett
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Atlantic City, Patrolman Clifton Mann fired three shots at an injured dog. The first hit the right leg of one Clarence Beckett, railroad watchman. The second hit the dog, failed to kill it. The third hit the right leg of one Paul Robbins, coal and ice merchant. A motorcycle policeman arrived, shot...
...christened "Dusty" at birth by his parents. All freely given names are not so obvious as these two, however. Bill McGeehan, probably the dean of American nicknamers, has almost single-handed run what he calls the cauliflower industry into the ground with his nicknames and epithets. "Horizontal" Joe Beckett, Phil Scott, the Leaning Tower of London, Signor Campolo, the Gyrating Gyraffe of the Andes, do not add much dignity and importance to the leather-pushing game...
...Hugh Beckett Greene, 19, fair, chinless, has a boyish shape (shoulders larger than hips) but wants to have the girlish reverse. Her wedding-day confession...
Docket number 105 is the Harlan Club (Hewitt, Beckett) versus the Cardozo Club (Wilner, Engleman). The meeting will be in Austin Hall East with Professor Seavey as chief justice...
...Beckett, Mass., William Ballon, owner of the reservoir above the town, sat waiting in his automobile until the dam began to crumble. Then he sped, honking, to warn his towns-fellows. All escaped but Mrs. Justine Carroll, aged 60, who hesitated fatally as mills, stores, houses, barns swept down upon...