Word: lateral
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...protege. It was, however, during the Southern Pacific's post-Harriman period that Mr. Shoup really rose to a prominent position, particularly through his management of the railroad's electric traction interurban lines and oil interests. He managed Pacific Oil Co. and Associated Oil Co., Southern Pacific subsidiaries, which later were sold to Standard Oil of California and Tidewater Oil, respectively...
...Later she showed her dingy colors by silently allowing the evidence to point toward Boyd as the murderer. When the truth threatened, she downed a dose of cyanide of potassium...
...basin and begins to wash her hair. When her sweetheart comes in and hands her the towel she is groping for she pretends to him that everything is all right. She convinces you then that she has complete knowledge of her part, and you accept without much argument the later scenes in which, marrying a mild fellow ashore, she finally molds herself to convention...
...from the nearby carnival. The seal's owner comes, too-Zarna, Diving Venus of the show. Zarna would like to live at Jason's farm, not only for her own sake but for the seal's. That is why she accepts Jason when he proposes marriage. Later she refuses to bear a baby, and saves Jason from drowning. Both these things tend to alienate Jason. They make him think she is not a womanly woman. He is further perturbed when, during the winter, she prefers sleeping with two sick seals. But go he will...
...State of Nevada are divorces, silver ore, the Mackay family. Divorce and the Mackay name were once "linked" in public prints, in 1914 when Mrs. Katherine Alexander Duer Mackay took the notion to leave her telegraph tycoon husband, Clarence Hungerford Mackay, and marry a surgeon named Blake whom she later divorced (TIME, Aug. 5). But that happened in the East. In Nevada, where the Reno divorce mill grinds exceedingly fast and the ways of women are an old story, the matter caused little comment. In Nevada the Mackay name rings with a sound of pure silver because it was there...