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The same weapon is mentioned - but not actually used in Methuselah's Children, written in the following year.
Vanning stopped. "Very well," he said in annoyed tones, "don't touch that vibroblade. I won't call from here..."
"It ain't a vibroblade. It's steel. Messy."
Appropriately, Lazarus Long, eldest member of the Howard Families, uses the traditional weapon rather than the new-fangled version.
These quotes are taken from the expanded versions of these stories from the collection The Past Through Tomorrow; both of these stories were expanded from their initial publication in 1940 and 1941. I haven't been able to confirm the presence of the word "vibroblade" in the original publications.
For purposes of comparison, Randall Garrett wrote this about the vibroblade in his 1962 novel Unwise Child:
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