Word: dashings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bottle in the other. I brained the first man near me, slashed the throat of the second one with the broken bottle and laid about with the steel rod. My aim was good. I stretched the other two out and then slit their throats. . . . After that I did a dash for the underbrush. . . . By this time the rest of the bandits began shooting. . . . I never dared to stop for a single moment. . . . I had a pretty good idea of the country and I made for Cuernavaca. I got there, all in, but safe" (Then motored to Mexico City...
This does not mean, except literally, that the art of punctuation has gone into its dotage. It is similar to the Victorian's excessive and indiscriminate use of the dash, especially in letters which amuse when exhumed by biographers. And as one lapses into the more familiar denotation, it is easy to sce how this new usage follows in the tradition of moving pictures and illustrated papers, in lifting from the people the burden of thought. The comma brings the reader to a sharp pause, and a consideration of the ground covered, but these other tracks flow gently on through...
...superior was the team play of the Freshman poloists that the Artillery was able to score only once, that point coming in the third chukker when Storer scored on an individual dash down the right side of the riding ring...
...salary of $10 weekly. Now she has $8000 a week, a police-dog, a canary, a gluttonous appetite for licorice candy, and a reputation for frail, goldenhaired beauty that has suggested, in a recent popular song, this recipe for exceptional loveliness: "Put Cleopatra into a dish, add a dash of Lillian Gish...
French Dressing, no matter how generously poured over Lois Wilson and H. B. Warner, should have at least a dash of the sharp subtlety of vinegar. Lacking this the other ingredients, though orthodox and not unpalatable, become somewhat spiritless. In this case they are a marital quarrel, a soupçon of extra-marital jealousy, a sudden but not surprising beautification of the wife, and, a bad last, the reconciliation which leaves her in charge of a quiescent situation...