Word: triggered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lingle. "leg man" (newsgatherer but not writer) for the Chicago Tribune, a newspaper man with racketeering side interests. Just after he bought a newspaper and entered the tunnel, some one in the human current moved up behind him, stuck a sawed-off revolver behind his head and pulled the trigger. As the shot barked through the crowded tunnel and people screamed. Lingle pitched forward to the pavement, newspaper still clutched under his arm, cigar in teeth, instantly dead...
...Hair-trigger nerves. A dark toothbrush mustache. Youth. The gift of gab. Ambition. A decent War record. IDEAS: how to shrug the burden of War debts off one's country's shoulder; how to recapture prosperity; how to become GREAT...
...Ardmore, Okla., Mrs. A. J. Hardy was driving home with her husband from a hunting trip. A dog in the car pawed at the trigger of a shotgun. Mrs. Hardy was shot dead...
...moving trigger-finger writes...
...gradually getting the better of him. I came too near the scuffle and Gillard grabbed the gun. He couldn't pull it out of my hand, but swung it towards his wife and children at the end of the room and tried to get at the trigger to shoot his wife. He grabbed my hand and in the struggle the gun, for a cause unknown to me, went off and shot Gillard. Another lie of yours is that I have a brass plate on the dining room floor with "To The Memory of a Faithful Servitor...