Word: lorenzo
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...reading tales of knight-errantry. Renaming himself Don Quixote, and his jag-jointed nag Rocinante (translation: formerly a hack), the madman enlists a local farmer, one Sancho Panza, as his squire. Breathing the name of his ladylove, Dulcinea del Toboso (in real life a husky farm girl named Aldonza Lorenzo that he has never said two words to), Don Quixote sets out in quest of adventures...
...Lorenzo ("The Magnificent") de' Medici had cause to be restless in his grave: a go-getting U.S. real-estate agency took a full-page ad in Town & Country offering bourgeois buyers the sumptuous Villa Medici that he built overlooking Florence in 1460. Asking price...
...Washington, Lorenzo Winslow, White House architect and historian, snorted. The land on which the White House was built, said he, was purchased by the U.S. Government about 1790 from one David Burns. Its title is free & clear. Nevertheless, a representative for the Spanish families will shortly depart for Washington with a load of aged document, to hire a lawyer and put in a claim...
...Lorenzo Parry was a toiler, all right, but not in the vineyard: he was a safecracker with 25 years of experience (counting periods of enforced inactivity...
...safe had $105 in it). He picked the spot because he was getting old and tired: he even found it hard working nights. To tell the truth, he summed up, safe robbing wasn't much of a career. "It has no future for a young man," gloomily concluded Lorenzo Parry. Then, thoughtfully, he added: "And no future for an old one, either...