Word: florindo
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...ever heard of Florindo ("Porky") Vieira? Not the basketball fans who only bother with big-time games and big-name colleges. But the students of Connecticut's Quinnipiac College (enrollment 800) insist that their chunky, 5-ft-6-in. sharpshooter is one of the best roundball players in captivity. Last week Porky boasted an average of 35 points per game, a healthy five points ahead of such highly touted major-college players as Kansas' Wilt Chamberlain and South Carolina's Grady Wallace. In the national standings, only West Virginia Tech's Kenny Hammond ranked higher...
...second day Mrs. Barnabie's unemployed husband Florindo relieved her while she took a nap, got a U. S. flag to plant beside her. Said she: "When my little Millie was sick they turned off the lights. They make us pay. Now let them pay." Public Service Electric & Gas Co offered three poles for firewood. Mrs Barnabie set her price...
...plot, briefly, is as follows: Rosaura and Beatrice, daughters of Doctor Balanzoni, are courted respectively by Florindo, a medical student living in the doctor's house, and by Ottavio, a gentleman of Padua. Florindo's timidity, however, prevents him from declaring his love except by indirect methods. He causes Rosaura to be serenaded by hired musicians, sends her, anonymously, a gift of lace; and composes a poem setting forth his love, but containing only vague hints of his identity. Instead of handing her the verses himself, he throws them on her balcony...
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