Word: slash
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Halt!" cries his opponent's second. The swords are instantly stuck up by the seconds and the umpire steps up to examine the head. It was a close shave, but the skin is whole, so they start again. The men are now getting terribly excited. Breathless and panting they slash away at each other; and it is no easy matter for the seconds to stop them at the word "halt." - London Society...
...long since we have attempted to criticise our contemporaries that we have found ourselves almost overwhelmed with the constantly increasing pile of exchanges; and it is with a feeling of despair and dread that we put on our overhauls and prepare to slash around...
There is something really amusing in the grim vigor with which all the publications of that great college, which cannot for the life of it support an illustrated paper of its own, slash at the productions of more ambitious colleges. We have all given up hoping that Yale will ever evolve out of its conservatism sufficient enterprise to put a rival in the field for the Lampoon or The Tiger. It has evidently given up all hope, itself, since the News recovered from those weekly gasps after the (to Yale) Unattainable, which appeared in its supplement last year...
...sorry to learn that the same privilege is not enjoyed by the fair publishers and editresses of the Lasell Leaves. They, poor aspirants for journalistic fame, are obliged to subject all their manuscript and "copy" to the judgment of one who has the right to cut and slash the scented, pink-paper copy as he sees fit, and who, no doubt, in this manner robs the Leaves of many of its best articles, and certainly of its originality. The fairness of this we are inclined to question...