Word: oiling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Oil & Water...
President Little, when he entered Harvard College, was thereby doomed to failure as a President of the University of Michigan. One can indeed mix oil and water, the saying to the contrary notwithstanding, but one cannot mix a real university with a "Collection of Colleges." An endowed college or collection of colleges, is a far different thing than a State University which is part of a State System of Public Instruction...
...strange men poking around his farm. They tapped the ground and from down below where you bury people, oil flowed out. Jackson's bronzed face wrinkled in astonishment. His neighbors told him he was rich. That made him grin. He continued to live in his shack and tend his garden. In far-off Washington a ledger under his name began to show mounting figures of royalty oil profits...
...dusk one evening in 1920 a taxicab rolled up to Jackson Barnett's door. A well-dressed white woman stepped out. She said she was interested in oil and asked him to go for a ride. It was getting dark; he did not want to go. But he was a good-natured Indian who could not say no. He grinned and went. They drove to Okemeh, 18 miles away, and there spent the night. She was not a bad looking white woman...
When President Coolidge remarked that "the business of America is business," most of his listeners thought at once of Big Business-U. S. Steel Corp., Standard Oil of New Jersey, General Motors, etc., etc. But for every billion-dollar corporation there are countless thousand-dollar corporations. For every Big Business that worries about the anti-trust law there are many small businesses that worry about the sheriff. And perhaps it is the little business that moves in the most mysterious ways its wonders to perform...