Word: triggering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other millionaire playboys also made headlines last week. John Given Jr.. 44-year-old heir to a piece of the Heinz pickle fortune, was asked to leave Brigantine, N.J. because of an intoxicated trigger finger. Given, who was in trouble back in 1948 for threatening an old man with a sword cane, set off a disturbance last week by visiting a children's party with five pistols, and firing blank cartridges in salvos while the kiddies fled, screaming, from every exit...
...beaters to maneuver deer within near-pointblank range. Out among the trees, deep-throated horns would toot calls signaling each stage of the hunt (the sighting of a stag, the shot, the finding of the carcass). Because he sometimes killed half a dozen stags at a single sitting, trigger-happy Hermann was privately referred to by hunters as "the Reich's Slaughter Master...
Philadelphia's late Dr. Albert C. Barnes, trigger-tempered art collector and self-made millionaire (Argyrol), who left the Barnes Foundation an art collection estimated at upwards of $20 million, also left a personal estate worth more than $2,000,000, according to an inventory filed last week...
...London restaurant, a tweedy Englishman remarked to his dinner companion: "It's a peculiar thing about Americans, they are always letting off machine guns by mistake . . . They used to in Chicago, they did when I was with them in France, and now in Koje. Trigger-happy, I believe they call...
Tokyo Extravagance. The old Trigger's first patrol began with the worst kind of embarrassment: within sight of Midway during the great battle with the Japanese fleet, she ran on to a coral reef and stuck. But next time out, there began the thrill of the chase and the underseas tension that were the normal climate of the subs. As in all forms of combat, the best of training was only partial preparation for the first attack and counterattack. Moving in for the kill, lining up the first ene my ship in the sights, the torpedoes crashing into...