Word: trigger
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Richmond, Va., 3-year-old Billy Watkins was playing in the home of James M. Colgin, Chesterfield County (Va.) storekeeper. Billy took a revolver from a drawer, pointed it at Mr. Colgin, pulled the trigger. Storekeeper Colgin fell, mortally wounded, died on the following...
...Cabinet, mostly composed of quick-trigger army officers, assembled with Dictator-Premier Ibanez and despatched a verbal ultimatum to the President. President Figueroa had no option but to issue a proclamation as follows: "Serious personal motives compel me to absent myself from my constitutional duties for a period of two months. During this time the Minister of the Interior (Premier Ibanez) will rep)ace me in the Presidency with the title of Vice President of the Republic, in accordance with Article 66 of the Political Constitution of the State...
Near Menominee, Mich., one Oscar Lebouf sighted through underbrush, squeezed his rifle-trigger, went crashing through the bushes after his bullet. Still twitching on the ground lay a buck deer. "Sapristi!" muttered Mr. Lebouf. "She sure ees one fine head of horns. By gar, I feex him, queeck!" Forgetting his gun he fumbled in his pocket for his shipping license, whipped it out, tied it to a horn. "Sac' bleu, no man can come an' take heem now," whispered Mr. Lebouf. He proudly examined the body to see where' his bullet had struck. Tickled back to consciousness...
...evening for some likely missionary who would make good soup. Two tramps, with shot guns, made it their duty to see that the savages did not get away with any unsuspecting frollickers. At intervals throughout the dance these shaggy creatures would stealthily come up behind someone and pull the trigger. The hall would vibrate with shreiks of the weaker sex and the boom of firearms...
Died. James R. Smith, president of the Atlanta Real Estate Board, director of the bankrupt Bankers' Trust Co. and Farmers & Traders Bank of Atlanta; at Atlanta. Bewildered by the bankruptcies, he pressed the trigger of a loaded shotgun with his toe, drove all the gun with his toe, drove the pellets into his abdomen...