Word: careering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...painter is acknowledged as one of the country's most brilliant. After his graduation he studied here and at Paris; early in his career he was an exhibitor at the leading seasonal art shows; and in 1919 he was commissioned to paint pictures of war celebrities...
...Brown, whose father was once Toledo postmaster, put aside a newspaper career to become a lawyer. The law led to politics. Mr. Brown climbed from ward captain to county boss. In 1912 he went a-maying with the Bull Moose party, but four years later was back in the Republican fold. On the fringe of the "Ohio gang," he was called to Washington by President Harding to draw up a tidy plan for reorganizing the government. Mr. Brown obeyed, diligently. His plan went into a pigeon hole and its author returned to Toledo...
Hockenbeamer. More characteristically, western, perhaps, is August Hockenbeamer, president of Pacific Gas & Electric. A onetime newspaper boy, his commercial career includes a period of collecting bad bills for a book store and of filling lamps in Pennsylvania R. R. offices. Mr. Hockenbeamer works incessantly, golfs indifferently, smokes continually (large, strong cigars). He was an originator of the idea that the general public should be invited to hold stocks in utilities. In 1914 Pacific Gas & Electric had 3,000 stockholders. It has some 50,000 today...
Detective Writer Joseph Hilaire Belloc is French by birth (1870), English by naturalization (1902). Arrogant, self-assured, his parliamentary career was remarkably unsuccessful. A devi for work, he is a genius for play, bringing to it tremendous energy, gargantuan exuberance...
Hart was graduated from Harvard in 1926, after having achieved great distinction in his college career. As a Freshman he won the Union Prize in 1923, and later held two scholarships. He was a member of the Student Committee on Education, of the Debating Council, and of the Phoenix and Speakers' Clubs. In 1924-1925 he was assistant Managing Editor of the CRIMSON; and became Editorial Chairman in his Senior Year. He was graduated Summa Cum Laude from the College; held a traveling scholarship in Europe for a year; and last year at the Law School was second ranking...