Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tradition Shattered. Most of Burnet Maybank's ancestors were low-country planters. Senator Maybank's father was a Charleston physician, and Maybank grew up in a stately colonial house in Charleston. After World War I, Maybank became a cotton exporter, then a Charleston alderman and mayor. He shattered the modern tradition that low-country aristocrats could not win the votes of up-country farmers; in 27 years of politics he never lost an election, was elected to the Senate three times, and was unopposed for reelection this year...
...carried out his supreme decision. At the sound of the single shot, members of his family rushed into the unlocked room. On the bed lay Getulio Vargas, still holding a revolver in his stiffened hand while the patch of blood over his heart grew larger. His son Luthero, a physician, felt his pulse. With tears streaming down his cheeks, Luthero whispered: "Papa is dead...
Prospering in the Pharaoh's favor, the soldier aspires to the hand of the Pharaoh's sister (Gene Tierney), but the young physician cannot heal himself of his lust for a whore of Babylon (Bella Darvi). In time, Sinuhe is cured by the love of a servant girl (Jean Simmons...
...book. Sinuhe (Edmund Purdom), infant son of the Pharaoh's wife, is set adrift in a reed boat on the Nile, victim of a palace plot against his mother. Rescued by a childless couple, he is raised as their son, learns the healing arts of his stepfather, a physician. Coming of age, Sinuhe meets a young soldier (Victor Mature), and together they save the life of the new Pharaoh Akhnaton (Michael Wilding) when he is attacked by a lion in the desert...
Gina is, furthermore, a reluctant girl with a lira. She lives plainly in a small apartment in an unfashionable district with her business-manager husband, a 34-year-old Yugoslav physician named Mirko Skofic (rhymes with so rich), who is now so busy with Gina's career that he has had to give up his medical practice...