Word: rowboated
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Rough Riders. A Cuban maid pursued by a sinister Spaniard, menacing, evil-minded. . . Another Spaniard in a rowboat, a lighted cigaret waved three times in the night blackness. . . Someone throws a switch and the Maine is blown up. Thus the film records the outbreak of the Spanish-American war. Paramount discovered one Frank Hopper, book-agent, who looks like Theodore Roosevelt. He is shown ordering the mobilization of the fleet during the absence of his superior, Secretary of the Navy Long...
...seen she was designed to swim by Nature, she had almost swum the Catalina Channel. She began again her laborious strokes . . . reached the oily shore swells . . . was swept toward a ragged reef . . . caught her footing, stood up, collapsed on her face. . . . The men hoisted her into the rowboat. Her time was 20 hr., 42 min. She had eaten nothing...
...floor above the boats were the engines, from little one-cylinder engines to hitch on to a rowboat, to oil engines big enough to drive a yacht. All week spectators gathered around the booth wherein, upon an altar, rested a Cummins Diesel engine. This engine used cheap fuel oil instead of gasoline, starts instantly from stone cold, "takes up no more space than a heavy-duty gasoline engine." Big Diesel engines are used to drive ocean liners...
...Lake George, N.Y., a speck that had crawled swiftly over the map from Long Island descended upon the lake ice, which crackled, boomed, broke through. Natives pushed out in a rowboat, rescued the half-sunken plane's three people, who registered at a hotel as A. L. & Mrs. Caperton, and Pilot J. P. Herman, of Garden City...
...sensitive to break with Roberta, top weak to give up Sondra, he is driven in desperation to focus upon a murderous thought. From the actual deed itself, he recoils. But he has proceeded so far in his feverish plans that the tide of circumstance sweeps him on. An overturned rowboat, a camera used as a bludgeon, and Roberta drowns, perhaps murdered. The Law bays and quarters. A ghastly courtroom inquisition, a horrible, nerve-wracking, death-cell nightmare, write the final chapter of a well-written, well-acted, well-produced, authentic tragedy...