Word: iced
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pressagent sent to Bergen to fetch her, at first treats her merely as Entry No. 436. He agrees that she has no chance for the part but talks her into flying to Hollywood for the trip, with her Aunt Phoebe (Edna May Oliver). After a twirl on the ice with her pupils, Trudi consents. Although Trudi does no skating in her screen test, she makes the grade. Jimmy believes that, as the new star, she can be used to bolster the publicity value of Roger Maxwell (Rudy Vallée), a crooner on the studio pay roll whose self-esteem...
...figure skaters ordinarily perfect no more feats than they need to eke out four minutes (five minutes for men) in competition. This official time limit was determined by the period figure skaters can leap and whirl without falling on their exhausted faces. Although Henie has enriched her repertory with ice dances such as her Pavlova-inspired "Dying Swan," her standbys are those of other figure skaters: the Lutze jump; Jackson Haynes (a sit spin); Axel-Paulsen (a one-and-a-half jump ending on the other skate); camel spin (on one foot); double Salchow (a double jump from the inside...
Then & there Sonja Henie, who has a competitive spirit only in the sense that she cannot brook a serious rival, decided that she would be beaten no more. She withdrew from competition, began practicing seven hours a day. Because Norway then had no indoor rinks and the good ice lasted only a few months, Papa Henie dug down into his capacious pantaloons and Sonja followed the ice and the good teachers into Germany, England, Switzerland, Austria. To develop her defective sense of rhythm, she studied ballet. In 1926, feeling her oats, she entered the world's championship matches...
During her ensuing reign as amateur queen of the ice, Sonja Henie won the world's championship ten times running, an unequaled record. She also won the seven European championships she entered, and she won the last three Olympic Games of her amateur era. She became a national idol such as Norway had not worshipped since Ibsen. Above the iron bedstead in her chamber in her small Oslo apartment hung autographed pictures of Hitler and Mussolini. England's Queen Mary and King Edward VIII were her devoted fans. Norway's moosey King Haakon took to telegraphing...
...personal diversions are tennis and her cars: a white Mercury cabriolet which she drives expertly at illegal speeds, and a 16-cylinder Cadillac, which Louis drives for more formal occasions. She also likes diamonds, an occasional champagne cocktail, and U. S. slang, which she puts to individual use. Of ice that does not satisfy her, she will casually observe that it is "stinking lousy," or of someone who bores her, "he stinks." A good dancer, she is fond of other good dancers like slinky Cesar Romero, lanky Lee Bowman. There was talk of a Bowman-Henie romance until it became...