Word: gashing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...coward, Policeman Kelly shoved his gun into its holster and grabbed the two blackamoors by their belts. Something struck him-a knife, he thought-jab, jab, jab, seven times in the left side. Something cut gash after gash in his face. He staggered outside, managed to make it around the corner to the police station...
...does, with a cool, poised cruelty that turned Brad-dock's aggressiveness into a painful demonstration of his ability to absorb a beating. By the end of the sixth round Braddock's eyes were nearly closed, his nose was smeared off line, blood dripped from a long gash on his upper lip and he knew, as he said later, that unless he could land a lucky punch, the end of his career as champion was at hand...
Then another son of Finn Mac Cool's leaped into her mouth, and when he had passed into her chest (this is the legend's anatomy, not mine) he bethought him of his knife. With it, he made a gash in the monster's side which killed her. " 'Twas a wonderful slaughter," says the tale, putting the statement, for modesty's sake, in parentheses...
...practice Wednesday, right fielder Jim Sullivan chipped a bone in his thumb, catching a line drive, and it is doubtful if he will be ready for action today. Although a spike gash in his heel, incurred yesterday, required three stitches, Art Johns is expected to play this afternoon against the Ithacans...
Thunder in the City (Columbia) is the meaningless title of a story about a U. S. ballyhoo artist who turns England topsyturvy promoting a new metal named magnalite. Gash-mouthed Edward G. Robinson plays the role in his customary Napoleonic manner. As genial Dan Armstrong, he lands penniless in London, bluffs his way into an option on the magnalite mines, installs a duke as board chairman, sends fleets of blimps over London carrying magnalite signs, soon sells all his stock to enthusiastic herds of subway riders. At this point another capitalist gets his hands on the only process that makes...