Word: venting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...scurrility would better become a journal of less dignity and fewer pretensions than itself. If the Lit. must wail, we presume it is all very proper that it should wail with perfect impunity; but we entreat our dear sister to show a more chivalric spirit, and not to vent its spite upon the weak and unprotected alone...
...Yale News, goaded by the fact that its Wednesday's supplement is decidedly not a success, and that it has received hardly any but unfavorable criticisms from the college press, gives vent to its long suppressed feelings in the Monday's issue of that most excellent paper. It says: "Now that the Record has spoken of it, we may be allowed to make some comments upon the howl of the Harvard advertising sheets as to Yale's wit, of which they claim our Wednesday number is the professed exponent. Evidently their disciplined memories do not recall what we declared...
...colleges, male colleges we will say, the press has unrestricted freedom, and through its medium the general college sentiment on all subjects, great and small, finds vent. That a college paper should have perfect freedom, provided the ones managing it are rational beings, is but right, and without it college papers would lose their interest even in the colleges where they are published; their editorials would be insipid and without point, and many items of interest concerning, perhaps, some of the restricting powers, would be suppressed...
EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: The correspondent in yesterday's HERALD betrays the animus of the whole article in his signature - "One who did not Draw a Room." Because he was born under an unlucky star, this writer has to vent his spleen in the columns of a college daily. Every one knows these men, whenever one of them thinks that the whole world has ceased for a moment to be at his feet, he rushes into print. When he sees his complaint in print he imagines that the fancied evil is done away with...
...Williams Athenoeum, seemingly ignorant of the fact that Oscar has retired to the obscurity of the "far West," acknowledges its ignorance of the meaning of aestheticism, and gives vent to its feelings on the subject in the following manner : "O, for a brazen throated hundred tongued volubility to comprehend and define this sky scraping aestheticism, this water-logged, wet chicken, Dircaean-swan-ism; this mental somnambulism, that dares everything and is conscious of nothing; this yellow sunflower, frilled shirt, plastered hairism! Shade of John Gilpin! Is this dilute extract of rose water and weak bombast, this white livered sentimentality...