Word: triggered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...corn, oil booms, and Klu Klux bands the bold Westerners have bitcired their belts another notch, sworn dutifully at the broiling sun and attacked that most revered of institutions the prohibition joke. Lest they continue to merit the reputation for over-hasty action, once gained by speed on the trigger and again confirmed by gubernatorial impeachments, the Oklahoma have, however, considerately buried their protest against this kind of humor in the body of a speech in defense of prohibition, delivered before the National Editorial Association...
Usually Mr. Hoover is calm and scientifically impersonal under fire. This time, however, his reply to Mr. Untermyer was quick on the trigger and vividly critical in tone. The Secretary, in fact, accused his assailer as "either engaged in slander or loss of memory" and branded his remarks as "reckless statements." The Californian followed up this slashing introduction by pointing out that the Department of Commerce has no authority to prosecute illegal combines; that he had made frequent recommendations for action against illegitimate trade associations, that he has never supported "open price associations," that the Webb-Pomerene Act was passed...
...stamped on by a rude bully of a rival and Whereas he did not promptly strike that rival dead, he was therefore turned out of the swaggering little Southern town of Magnolia, therefore he Resolved to become a devil among the Mississippi gamblers. A pull at a trigger is to him then as a flick of his deft cambric handkerchief, he worsts that most delectable of all villains, Noah Beery, and returns to wipe his feet on the top piece of his rival. The whole is served in Southern style, with a beautiful, beautiful heroine, and dialogue in which there...
...Tiger; and today when the estimable puritanical gentleman goes down into the Palmer Stadium, he will be very wary, for he has felt the Tiger's claws. In his lair the Tiger is particularly wily. But John will watch his step and keep his finger on the trigger, for only twice in the past has be "done in" the Tiger in his new Stadium...
After seven barren years and two successive defeats it is only natural to be wary and to keep a finger on the trigger. But, cautious and slow as he may be, John is a sturdy old gentleman, with all the determination of his ancestors who lived in the woods and treated with the Indians, and he has never quailed before the dog from New Haven or the tiger from the Princeton jungle. Today he knows that the sages are counting him out, are backing the tiger in the annual stalking match. But he remembers the advice of his even more...