Word: oiling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...conclusion of the bath she anoints her hair with coconut oil in which some particles of coconut meat may be seen and then knots her hair up out of her way and washes any clothes she may desire to clean. Then in her wet clothing she goes home for dry, and to comb and dry her hair. JASON M. WALLING...
...daughter Princess Ileana and son, Prince Nicholas; took tea with Mrs. Woodrow Wilson in the latter's stateroom; visited the engine-room and shook hands with several minions who had been provided with white gloves against this contingency; was informed by a gallant engine oiler that Rumanian engine oil is best; was presented with what the donors described as "the finest watch in the World" (smaller than a dime) by high seas representatives of the New York News Photographers' Association who snapped Her Majesty incessantly; visited the steerage and kissed there a Rumanian baby; laid her royal head...
...French National Research Co. announced, and careful U. S. oil men accepted it as a fact, that Chemist Audibert of Paris had succeeded in making synthetic petroleum, not as a laboratory curiosity, but by a process commercially practicable. This announcement was made and received as being far more important than other fuel-substitute discoveries lately made- coal dust in the U. S. and Germany, fagots in France (Time, Oct. 11). Submitting oxygen, hydrogen and coal to a pressure of 200 atmospheres, introducing a secret catalytic agent and filtering the result, M. Audibert had indubitably obtained a heavy viscous fluid which...
...cases. Proportionately, he has a more rigid test to pass before his discussion of sexual unhappiness, his strictures on adult-infantilism, his "shudder" and "premonition" of a new Dark Age, can be accepted by the fairly happy rank and unselfconscious file whose physicians still give them castor oil, gruff instructions...
...parallel to those of the U. S. F. A., and as such they are to be commended. Furthermore an association which includes on its executive committee shoulder to shoulder, a Y. W. C. A. leader and a Milwaukee banker-philanthropist, a university president and a Chautauqua manager, a Standard Oil executive and a Trades Union League director, the secretary of the American Library Association and the Chairman of the Ford Ball Forum, inadvertently demonstrates the potential usefulness of organized educational cooperation in most striking fashion...