Word: trigger
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hair-Trigger Governments in Southeastern Europe", Professor Charles A. Beard, Harvard...
...Haiv Trigger Governments in Southeastern Europe". Professor Charles A. Beard, Harvard...
...Treasury, Whitehall, London, who is now delivering the Lowell Institute lectures in Boston, will speak on the British Treasury. On March 28, there will be a talk on "Political Theory and Political Practice" by Ernest Barker, professor at Cambridge University; and Charles Beard will lecture on "Hair Trigger Governments in Eastern Europe" on April...
Came a knock at the door of her suite. She opened it. "Are you going to marry him?" chorused the reporters, trigger-fingers quivering on their pencils. Miss Morrow laughed. "Hold that pose!" chorused the cameramen, shaking powder in their flashlight pans...
...such moments policemen should be calm. One of the Pons policemen, said to be a relative of Emile Combes, lost his head utterly. Drawing his revolver he trained it on the clerical iconoclast with the sledge hammer, pulled trigger, shot the youth dead. Cooler policemen rounded up the tattered mob men and then discovered to their horror that they were disguised Royalist followers of famed Leon Daudet, son of the great novelist Alphonse Daudet, stubborn and wrongheaded champion of Roman Catholicism and the Royal House of France. The Pope has excommunicated Leon Daudet and his followers (TIME, April 9). Their...