Word: triggers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spray gun took its place among the garage man's favorite toys. Always alert to industry, Artist Siqueiros considered it more than a toy, urged its use for murals. Neither Siqueiros himself nor other muralists have actually done much with it. But last week in Manhattan two trigger men appeared with demonstrations of what a spray...
...works with an air-compressing machine and a spray gun of the common industrial type (same principle as an atomizer), using not ordinary Duco enamel but a similar nitrocellulose paint. It has taken him six years, since he first started work with Siqueiros in Mexico City, to train his trigger finger to its present control. Painted on pressed wood, his two mural Portraits of New York were full of refined detail, though somewhat lifeless in color and very stark in symbolism. Each embodied a major ingenuity which Artist Berdecio calls "kinetic perspective" by which distortions are so anticipated and utilized...
...Department when he took a howitzer (for which he had no use) on his third expedition to the West. Courageous, spirited, good-humored and humorless, he seems in Allan Nevins' big (649-page), definitive biography to have been somehow distracted-like an actor who pulls the trigger but the pistol does not go off, or like a leading man who launches his great scene before the curtain rises...
...never shot a big rifle, but he lay on the floor, took aim. As Durand spied him and raised a smoking rifle, Cox fired. Earl Durand crumpled with a grunt, hit in the chest. He crawled back into the bank, put his revolver to his own temple, pulled the trigger. Bank President Nelson pumped one more bullet into the shaggy, dead head just to make sure...
...there is to Charlie is that original red-wigged block of wood, and an oft-replaced body inside which is a trigger with which Bergen makes the little fellow leer, bow, grimace. He has a standin, used in cinema work and for some publicity stills; a wardrobe that includes a supply of monocles, two full dress suits, a supply of starchy linen, ten hats size 3½, including several toppers, two berets; a Sherlock Holmes outfit, jockey silks, a cowboy suit, a French Foreign Legion uniform, a gypsy costume ("It's the Gypsy in me"). He wears baby-size...