Word: sonja
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sonja Henie is a well made, light-haired girl with a good-natured, intelligent face and muscular legs. She is 17 and has been figure-skating champion of the world for the last three years. She has won the Olympic title once and the Norwegian six times. Her father, William Henie, runs a trade in women's wear that has been in the Henie family for 100 years. His store on the Prinsens-Gade, with its flag over the door and the costly sheen of the fur coats behind the thick plateglass, is one of the most expensive...
...recognition of his 20-year patronage of fancy skating and of the interest which makes him hurry out of his big house on Fifth Avenue with his skates under his arm whenever, from his drawing room window, he sees figures moving on the lakes in Central Park. Sonja Henie was the Princess, and it was she whom the spectators had come to see. In a gold costume, with the spotlight on her. she stood chained to the mast of a Viking ship; later she gave an exhibition by herself...