Word: guarino
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...exception was Carmine Guarino, nicknamed "the Toad." Like Silvio, Carmine had been born to poverty, but he had found escape along another road, by burying his nose in books until his eyes dimmed and his skin grew waxen with the pallor of lamplight. Carmine's studies brought him no money, but they helped make him a schoolmaster and a politician, full of respect for the ordered and privileged past and contempt for illiterate successes such as that of Silvio...
Faction v. Faction. Soon afterward, a new statue appeared on Don Silvio's lawn -a large toad with a human head. Carmine Guarino saw it and made the mistake of complaining in public. Soon all of Contrada was flocking to the Capuana estate to look at the new portrait and laugh at its subject. Professor Guarino writhed in an agony of shame. Silvio broke precedent by driving into the village to write, "Life can be beautiful," in bold, black letters on the side of his desecrated tomb. Carmine promptly brought suit for defamation of character...
Because the first six varsity golfers were at Annapolis, the Crimson could do no better than 22nd in a field of 23 teams in the New England intercollegiate held at the Oakley Country Club Friday. Harvard entries were Dave Hedberg (88), John Sears (87), Phil Guarino (93), and Bill Bridges...
Senior John Sears and sophomore Bob Goldman are both capable of breaking into the first seven, as are juniors Bill Rydell, Bill Bridges, and Phil Guarino...
...Because Richart cannot go, Captain Paul Weissman will lead the squad. Practice rounds will be held Sunday and Monday before the Tuesday match. The next two days will be spent at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. Men making the trip besides Weissman, include Jack Brophy, Bill Bridges, Phil Guarino, John Sears, Bill Rydell, and Dave Hedberg...