Word: bladed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...expensive, for the boiling down of the pulp diminishes its bulk by 50%. With the vigor of a true Yorkshireman, Mr. Harrison last week took pains to denounce as an ass an imaginative U. S. reporter who wrote how esparto grass had to be plucked by sweating Negroes, one blade at a time...
...insulted, and although he seized a hara-kiri knife and rushed in a towering rage to the house of his insulter, he failed to disembowel himself upon the doorstep. Instead, when Insulter Yamamoto opened his door, In-sultee Furoda, violating every canon of Japanese etiquette, plunged the short sharp blade not into his own vitals, but into those of the astounded Farmer-Laborite, who died instanter...
...bigger piece at the Georgian for a dime. Yeah, a lot bigger. Better, too. This here tastes like oatmeal. Don't you eat there any more? I used to, too. The fellow got sore one time, though. I was balancing a glass of milk on my knife blade and it spilled all over somebody's lap and they kicked...
...Turning blade up in moonlight...
...gathered in the Toledo (O.) Blade; the Duluth Herald he bought in 1918. Last year, he negotiated a shrewd deal in Pittsburgh, where he bought both the morning Post and the evening Sun, then traded the Sun to Publisher William Randolph Hearst for the morning Gazette-Times, then consolidated the two morning papers into the enormously profitable Post-Gazette. With the Standard-Union, Publisher Block owns five daily newspapers...