Word: trigger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...expatriate Cossack with a will to be a cow hand. He would take U. S.-born James Stewart, cast him as an easy-talking, no-gun sheriff who brings law'to lawless Bottle Neck, routs its bad men by using his head instead of his trigger finger. Producer Pasternak allowed that he might turn out something new in the genre...
...play gagged up by Kaufman takes hair-trigger handling to put it across. The production at the Copley, however, started off like a funeral procession. About the middle of the first act hope was fast fading when in whooped Erford Gage in a coon skin coat and the show began to shake the dust off its feet. By the end of the second act everyone was talking at once. Mr. Gage was roaring up and down stairs, Joan Croydon (Julie) was standing mid-stage screaming her head off, and things looked brighter. Things continued to look bright straight through...
...beauties ballyhoo a multitude of little things: soft front-seat edges for comfort, better insulation against road-rumble, trigger-release parking brakes, direction signals and warning signals for low gas & oil, hot motor, faulty ignition, etc. Pointing up comfort, safety, economy, new models are generally longer, lower, wider, roomier, with increased visibility and lots more chromium. Steering column gearshift relegates to the archives the old wobble-stick. Running boards are mostly optional. Air-conditioned heaters are highly favored...
...Brooklyn saloon, Patrolman William Deichler did his favorite trick. Removing five bullets from his six-shooter, he said: "I'll pull the trigger and stop the bullet before it gets in my mouth." Patrolman Deichler lost count, pulled the trigger six times, fell dead...
Turned down at Annapolis because of a crooked trigger finger, Dan became a civil engineer, spent the next five years getting in & out of trouble as a map maker for insurance companies through the South. When he went to Manhattan in 1878, sold a water color of a fish for $25, he decided "darned if I'd work any more...