Word: triggered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York campaign. All of which merely reinforces Castor in his previous conclusion that Mr. Roosevelt is getting to feel encumbered by Secretary Farley, who, although he served well by the free lavish of his trick for inflaming Rotarians last November is a mite too fast on the trigger for political comfort. The anti-Tammany democracy would have done more wisely if they had supported LaGuardia and forgotten the specious McKee, for the Major will be too heavily saddled with his colleagues to undertake any really unpleasant reforms, and would thus combine safety for Roosevelt with boon for the metropolis...
...later Prince Michael turned up with a badly-bunged nose. Next day. while Carol of Rumania inspected a machine gun factory at Cluj, a General suddenly bawled an order with a voice like a bomb. The shout scared a soldier. The soldier twitched his fingers. His fingers jerked the trigger of a machine gun. B-B-R-R-R-AM ! A dozen bullets whizzed post King Carol's nose. In Rochester. Minn, four surgeons from famed Mayo clinic boarded a chartered plane shortly before 8 p. m., flew 500 miles to Detroit, motored 51 more miles to Chatham...
...companion piece shows Miriam Hopkins in an unusual role. As "Temple Drake" she wallows through a muck of William Faulkener situations with a drunken Southern boy, captured by gangsters, fascinated with the gang leader Trigger, ably played by William LaRue, she runs the gamut of degradation and disgrace to show you that the Southern girl at nineteen is dangerous, inbred, and crawling with complexes...
After living in sin with the Trigger, the upright young lawyer who had proposed to her, finds them. She shoots the Trigger who had killed the drunken boy and comes to trial before her father, a rugged judge. It all turns out nicely and the audience goes home happy. One hears that George Raft refused to take the nasty part, fearing to get a snaky reputation and be hissed by the kiddies like William Powell or Wallace Berry...
...book, was merely Pop-Eye's assistant. She takes a liking to him forthwith, accompanies him from the ramshackle 'leggers hideaway where an automobile accident has stranded her to more commodious quarters in a city sporting house. When her respectable suitor calls there to subpena the gangster, Trigger, in a trial for the murder of one of his underlings, Temple tries to leave, shoots Trigger for trying to stop her. When she tells all this on the witness stand, her respectable suitor, who has persuaded her to do so, proves himself to be the most broad-minded cinema...