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Word: timebomb (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Usage:

...scene in the picture and most gruesome* in the month's crop of such exhibits shows the public prosecutor torturing the triggerman into a wholesale confession of his crimes by beating him, strapping him into a chair, leaving him alone with a sinister package supposed to contain a timebomb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jan. 27, 1936 | 1/27/1936 | See Source »

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