Word: rowboat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Navy to build 15 cruisers that he was referred to in debate as "a mighty light cruiser" by Missouri's caustic Senator Reed who added that "a rowboat appeared to be in charge of the fleet." When the London Treaty limiting auxiliary naval craft arrived in the Senate, he mischievously used his committee, which had nothing to do with the treaty, to bring out the Navy's dissent with the Hoover policy. He later voted against the treaty's ratification as a bad bargain for U. S. defense...
...girl, Roberta Alden, and attempts to desert her when he is attracted by Sondra Finchley, richer and correspondingly more interesting. When Roberta Alden tells Clyde Griffiths that she is going to have a baby, he is provoked to kill her?by taking her on a picnic, tipping over their rowboat, swimming to shore while she drowns...
...Michael Hamelburg, 46, father of five, radio dealer, enthusiastic reader of Robinson Crusoe, disappeared from his home. Last week detectives found him on a desert island near Long Beach feeding crumbs to two wild ducks. "All I want," said he, "is to be let alone and to have a rowboat...
...traveling salesmen from Cincinnati hired a rowboat and pulled out to fish in Lake Erie off Sandusky, Ohio last week. Suddenly a huge, heavy coil, grey on top and white underneath, broke water beside their craft; a yellow, black-crowned head six inches across the forehead, rose up and cold glittering eyes stared at them unblinkingly...
...traveling salesmen, Frank Bagenstose and Clifford Wilson, thought their time had come. But Salesman Wilson unshipped an oar, struck out forcibly with it, stunned the apparition. Growing bolder, he and his companion fished down in the water, brought up 18 ft. of fat snake. They wadded it into the rowboat, took it to shore, crated it, locked it in their automobile. As soon as it was crated, it revived. Crowds numbering thousands filed past the motorcar...