Word: skates
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Certain provocative postures accentuate still more the indecency . . . especially ... a certain posture (pardon the comparison!) which brings to mind a posture that dogs often use. These ladies seem to think it impossible to skate gracefully without lifting a leg as high as possible . . . and facing the audience...
...skates every day. Here Second move, after opening the official note of acceptance from Radcliffe, was to enroll as a members of the Boston Skating Club. Though daily practice has polished here style, she will never try for an Olympic laurel wreath. Nor will she turn professional. She prefers to skate for fun and exercise...
...Crimson will probably be near full strength for the contest, with Shaw McKean ready to rejoin the first line for full duty, and with Captain Lavalle due to start in the nets. The third line, which was broken up to bolster the first two this week will skate together once more with Larry Ward at center and Bram Arnold and George Minot at the wings. Probable Starting Lineups HARVARD ARMY Sears lw Kuyk Key c Norby McKean rw Cerow Washburn ld Donohoe Greeley rd Austin Lavalle g Moss
...natural athlete. Her daddy taught her how to swim in two weeks. She climbed trees like a monkey and hung by her knees from the branches. She rode horseback and played golf. Skating was her own idea. From her father, who despite his invalid body worked 18 to 20 hours a day in the Department of National Defense, she learned tenacity. In the barnlike Minto Club, not far from her house, she practiced her first figures;-learning to do eights, brackets and counters ; to skate on the inside or outside edge of the runners (never on the flat...
...kids used to tear-skate through the figures she was laboriously tracing. Sometimes they knocked her down. But she always got up and went carefully on. She never went home until she finished the required number of hours of practice, and when she did, it was often with chafed knees and dried tearstains on her cheeks. At eight, as the Spirit of the New Year in the Minto Follies, the Ottawa Journal called her "the darling of the show." At ten she became the youngest Canadian girl ever to win the gold medal,* and met Sonja Henie, who took Barbara...