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...Damned Disgrace!" As the four tellers approached the Chair to inform the Speaker that Gandhite Brockway had been suspended by a vote of 260 to 24, Teller John Beckett, a Laborite nobody, was seen to whisper to one of his colleagues, was answered by a shake of the head...
...other tellers began their traditional three bows to the Chair, Mr. Beckett without bowing suddenly shouted...
...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...