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Word: oiling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Houdini is dead, but Lawyer Martin W. Littleton is still alive, very. Lawyer Littleton is the man who last week extricated Harry Ford Sinclair from the oil scandal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORRUPTION: Old Oil | 4/30/1928 | See Source »

...exhibit are five Sargents, including "In the Tyrol", the gift of Sir Joseph Duveen: "A Tomb at Toledo", purchased from the Louise E. Betteus Fund; and "Camping near Lake O'Hara", the gift of the friends of the Fogg Museum. Sargent's oil painting "Lake O'Hara" is also given...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DRAWINGS BY HOMER, SARGENT, AND TURNER ARE EXHIBITED | 4/25/1928 | See Source »

Among the many divers objects on exhibition, there are oil paintings by Mr. Murphy, and water colors by Professor Haffner and Mr. Warren. The subjects of the paintings range from architectural sketches to landscapes. The landscapes range from Mediterranean and Caribbean subjects to canvases representing the wintry landscapes of the North...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In the Graduate Schools | 4/25/1928 | See Source »

...Station. Ever since the porter dropped his luggage in Copley Square, ever since the moment when the man's eyes flooded as he said: "Home, thank God" there has been a Bostonian flavor, even occasionally a Cantabrigian tang to his work. It is through granite one drills to reach oil, he must have thought, and as good granite as that of Teapot Dome is in the steps of the Park Street Church...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UPTON, READ DOWN | 4/25/1928 | See Source »

...strong editorial position, having nothing to defend, and having every chance of gaining by a change in the present conditions of affairs. This has given to his pen, and perhaps to his whole mentality, a virulence not unlike that to be found in The Nation and in the oil charges of the Democratic party in this country...

Author: By V. O. J., | Title: French, English, American Essays | 4/23/1928 | See Source »

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