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Word: zwack (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ballet, from comic capers to spinning solos. It had no glittering star like Hollywood's Sonja Henie. But skating fans last week were ready to adopt new ice gods: Wisconsin's piquant Bess Ehrhardt and dashing Roy Shipstad (the "human top"); Adagio Specialists Idi Papez and Karl Zwack of Vienna (onetime European pair champions) ; Brooklyn-born Evelyn Chandler, who turns nine Arabian cartwheels without touching hands to ice; little Harris Legg, who takes a breath-taking leap over a lineup of eleven barrels and as a giant snowman performs the rare stunt of skating on 18-inch stilts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: On Ice | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

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