Word: rowboated
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...crazed medieval orgy of Devildom described above was reproduced in modern Hamburg when rust ate through a commonplace-looking tank and something began to escape with a faint hiss. The murderous invisible thing that stole forth was phosgene, almost imperceptible war gas. Two girls were fishing from a rowboat in the harbor nearby. When the air surrounding them became charged with phosgene vapor in the minute proportion of one-half gram per cubic yard they went suddenly limp, as the poison acted on their lungs. Invisible swords in the hands of cowardly assassins would not have been so quick...
...Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King; National Defense Minister Col. J. L. Ralston; Postmaster General Hon. Peter J. Veniot. Sirens shrieked and the big liner moved away on its voyage across the Atlantic. Handkerchiefs waved, silk hats were lifted, last messages shouted. And gradually the great ship became like a rowboat on the horizon and eventually was seen no more...
Time to Love (Raymond Griffith). While making love in a rowboat that bobs on the edge of a fall, fighting duels for the Marquis de Daddo, and engaging in picturesque stunts that have little plot cohesion, Raymond Griffith manages to appear nonchalantly amusing...
...rowboat, dearie? Whoops...
...swooped over the jungles of Brazil, threaded the West Indies, visited New Orleans and Texas, and which he was now refueling for the next hop, to San Diego and the Pacific, lay in still water surrounded by a Joseph's coat of many colors-spilled oil. From a rowboat full of boys nearby fluttered a yellow butterfly, a lighted match. Poof! The Joseph's coat burst into flaming flags...