Word: sevening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bell-an iron rod seven feet long with removable iron discs on each end (so that weights can be increased or decreased)-is the yardstick of a strongman's brawn...
First Fiddle. Figure skating, the art in which Sonja Henie was first feminine fiddle for more than a decade, is a graceful competitive pastime which was once regarded as about as unsalable as china painting. In championship competition, figure skaters are called on to do about seven out of about 41 compulsory school figures. Although many of these figures are inordinately difficult to learn, most are very dull to watch. The second half of a figure-skating contest is free skating, where invention counts as well as execution. Theoretically unlimited, in practice most free-skating repertories, including Sonja Henie...
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...
...Barnum produced The Drunkard to show the tragic effects of drink. In 1933 The Drunkard was revived in Los Angeles to show the comic effects of time. Last week the Los Angeles revival went into its seventh year,* breaking all known theatrical records for a continuous (seven-days-a-week...