Wrestling Lies and Love in a South American Ring
A wrestler named the Cobra recounts crooked betting in Ecuador and a staged loss to Aloicio in Quito. He describes bribes, a matchmaker shot, and the crowd’s mix of bets and boos as he feigns defeat to secure a fair result. A bold exit follows as a stylish woman interrupts from a hotel lobby.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South America
Ecuador
Eraklios
Aloicio Macombo
Quito
Senor Ramon
Ramon
Aloicio
Champ
Prayer in the Quiet Room
A reflective verse describes praying alone in a quiet room. The speaker shares burdens and griefs with a friend described as divine, seeking comfort and help as they kneel and pour out their unsolved problems.
Quiet Room Dialogue With Cosmic Lover
A narrator in a dreamlike exchange with a divine engineer contemplates the cosmos and a personal world. A comic miscue yields a playful mispronunciation and a joke about marriage and wrestling as a metaphor for love.
TV and radio star Hopalong Cassidy fame spans decades
The piece notes Boyd, aka Hopalong Cassidy, as a top U S radio and screen figure since 1919, with credit for his rise in the 1930s and continued popularity in personal appearances. It also mentions Jane Novak, Walter Huston, Barbara Stanwyck, Wendell Corey, and Gordon MacRae in related entertainment context.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bill
C. B. DeMille
Hopalong Cassidy
Jane Novak
William S. Hart
Paramount
Walter Huston
Barbara Stanwyck
Wendell Corey
Niven Busch
Motion Picture Daily
Gordon MacRae
NBC
Fred Waring
Caracas
Venezuela
Ruth Roman
Snowstorm Traps Reporter Hopeful on Rocky Pass
Guy, a 26 year old hopeful journalist, drives from Denver to interview Mr. Moore for a newspaper job. A May snowstorm seals the pass as his hopes fade. he faces deathly cold, debt, and a stranded future with no help in sight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Guy
Jackson
Mr. Moore
Denver
Crossword Puzzle Across and Down Clues
A compact listing of across and down crossword hints with numbered clues across the grid. Includes tolerable hyphenated, verbs like soaks up, adjectives and nouns such as sun god beak river forms and archaic spellings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
River
Earth
Tiny
Short
Also Mentioned on This Page
Broadway
Main Street
Billy Rose
Alcicio
Raferee
Heem
Beeg
Alcidio Ween
Shas
Meesus Pappanokiyzlikos
Grace Noll Croweli
Inez Gerhard
Boyd
United States
Mutual
New
Ralph Bigwald
Horace Heldt
Himeself
Charleston
8.C
Jerry Ambler
Columbia
Purple Hills
Gene Autry
Chester Conklin
Mack Sennett
RKO
Lynn Chambers
Lynn Bays
But
the Fiction Corner
Son
Senator Ostrand
Ostrand
Bulgaria
Leashard
Neat
Forma
Slide
Topez Hums
America
Lydia KE
Pinkham
Lydia E. Pinkham
Doan
Doans
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