Word: herbert
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...camera was delighted to find the young Guinness popping into Great Expectations as the giddily genial Herbert Pocket. It embraced him, in Guinness's grand postwar decade of Ealing Studios comedies--both as that Candidean innocent, the creator of a miracle fabric in The Man in the White Suit, and as the mousy banker who nearly pulls off the legendary Eiffel Tower paperweight caper in The Lavender Hill Mob. It saw him locate the suicidal pride of the colonel in The Bridge on the River Kwai. The camera may even have captured an on-the-fly self-portrait when...
Conversely, Herbert Hoover was a gleamingly successful citizen right up until the fall of 1929, when his reputation followed the economy downward in a disastrous spiral. And so on. The presidency retains a mystique of transformation. The office is still a variation on the American theme of new beginnings. Americans might actually find it attractive if George W. Bush's only accomplishment by age 40 had been to quit drinking...
...GEORGE HERBERT WALKER BUSH Born: 1924 The standard bearer. His eight years as Vice President and four years as President followed an already impressive public-service resume...
...GEORGE HERBERT WALKER 1875-1953 Started a brokerage firm in his 20s that Merrill Lynch bought in 1974. A president of the U.S. Golf Association, he established the prestigious Walker...
...GEORGE HERBERT WALKER JR. Dorothy's other brother was chairman of the board of the investment firm his father founded and an original co-owner of the New York Mets