Word: slashing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Pizarro still lies in Lima. At least they say it is he?the shriveled corpse in a glass coffin, scaled these four centuries, with a foot hacked off, a hand gone, a slash in its throat. For a few pesos, the monks of the cathedral will take you into the dusky chapel and gloat, while you stare, at the mummy-like remains in black vestments.* They will tell you, old hatred burning beneath their derision, that this shrunken carcass was once the Conqueror of Peru, the boisterous cattleman from Panama, who sailed home to Spain and had himself made Viceroy...
Charles Hanson Towne in the International Book Review: "A slash here, a slash there, and we have a perfect picture. Vivid as lightning?and as terrifying...
Heidelberg women students are not permitted to duel. They have received all the privileges accorded to the male members of Germany's famous university except this one, but the fair creatures insist that they should have the right to slash one another's cheeks open with swords. An American student at the Uni-versity before the war was admitted to one of the celebrated dueling clubs - an almost unprecedented honor. After a wait of a few weeks he was called upon to take part in a duel. It is an inviolable rule that the opponents may cut, parry...