Physique contests for women date back to at least the 1960s with contests like the Miss Physique and Miss Americana.

The only woman recipient, Miss Garson will receive the award with Ferdinando Sarmi, creator of chic, beautiful women's fashions ; ;

* Sharon Versyp, Indiana's 1984 Miss Basketball ( Mishawaka High School ) and current Purdue women's basketball coach

* Miss Elaine, an American manufacturer and retailer of women's nightwear

In 1887 Acklen Cheatham sold the estate to a group which intended to develop it into a subdivision, but in 1889 the mansion and 13 acres of its grounds became the home to a women's school run by a Miss Hereon and Miss Hood.

* Connecticut College has seven a cappella groups: three women's groups ( the ConnChords, The Shwiffs and Miss Connduct ), one men's group ( Co Co Beaux ), and three coed groups ( Conn Artists, Vox Cameli, and Williams Street Mix ).

* Miss Sixty is a women's apparel brand

Her most famous piece is " Miss Sophia's Diary " ( 莎菲女士的日記 Pinyin: Shāfēi Nǚshì de rìjì ), a seminal work in the development of a voice for women's sexuality and sexual desire.

Miss Porter's School was established in 1843 by education reformer Sarah Porter, who recognized the importance of women's education.

Historically, the Femina Miss India pageant sent the winner of the pageant to Miss Universe pageant, and Eve's Weekly, a rival women's publication sent the winner of its Miss India contest to Miss World, Miss Asia Pacific.

Though she was a " charismatic leader " and the first woman to head a college in Virginia, Miss Cocke was not interested in waging any battles for women's education ; indeed, she let her nephews, Joseph Turner and M. Estes Cocke, handle the school's financial dealings entirely.

Miss Cocke shared the opinion of president John McBryde of Sweet Briar Women's College in nearby Lynchburg, who in 1907 decried the " independence " sought by Vassar and other members of the Seven Sisters and suggested instead that women's education focus on " grace refinement ".

The samba-inspired " Miss Chatelaine " was ironic ; Chatelaine is a Canadian women's magazine which once chose lang as its " Woman of the Year ", and the song's video depicted lang — who was usually best known for a fairly androgynous appearance — in an exaggeratedly feminine manner, surrounded by bright pastel colours and a profusion of bubbles reminiscent of a performance on the Lawrence Welk show, complete with an accordion in the instrumentation.

In a humorous epilogue prior to the credits, the following is revealed: Verena goes on to publish Moi, one of the most-read women's publications in the world ; Odette becomes a congresswoman and declares war on the tobacco industry ; Momo is a scientist developing the first male oral contraceptive ; Tinka, a famous actress, ironically comes out to Barbara Walters in a 1997 interview ; Tweety became a psychologist and wrote a best-seller about bulimia ; Abby, a radical political activist, is serving a prison sentence for a 1970 bank holdup ; and Miss Godard's is still a girls school.

Our Miss Brooks was considered groundbreaking for showing a woman who was neither a scatterbrained klutz nor a homebody but rather a working woman who transcended the actual or assumed limits to women's working lives of the time.

In 1989, star Ole Miss women's basketball player Kimsey O ' Neal became the first black student to gain the title " Miss Ole Miss.

Men's and women's brands found at Buckle include: BKE, BKE Boutique, BKE Sole, Buckle Black, Big Star, Big Star Vintage, Reclaim, Daytrip, Guess ?,! It Jeans, Lucky Brand Jeans, MEK Denim, Miss Me, Jack B. B.

This is an official preliminary contest of the Miss America Pageant held each September in Atlantic City.

In addition to the main competition, the entries take part in the Miss Congeniality contest, where the participating authors vote for three games ( not including their own ).

* 1997 – In Nigeria, more than 100 people are killed at an attack aimed at the contestants of the Miss World contest.

* 18-Anna Santisteban, advisor of Miss Puerto Rico titleholders for the Miss Universe contest.

" The street was closed and decorated with flags and bunting, and the Times reported plans for New York's acting mayor Joseph V. McKee to present a " key to Cortland Street " to the then-reigning Miss New York, Frieda Louise Mierse, while a contest was held to name a " Miss Downtown Radio.

Named after her grandfather Cy and her father Bill, Shepherd won the 1966 " Miss Teenage Memphis " contest at age 16, and the 1968 " Model of the Year " contest at age 18, making her a fashion star of the 1960s, resulting in fashion modeling work through high school and after.

In April 1947, when Crouch was a senior at Winthrop College, Thurmond was a judge in a beauty contest in which she was selected as Miss South Carolina.

Among the activities of this group were the organization of a Miss Nazi beauty contest and the formation of a Chilean branch of the Ku Klux Klan.

Minor contests, such as the Miss Bondi contest in Australia, are common throughout the world in the summer months.

Denise Marie Quiñones August ( born September 9, 1980, Ponce, Puerto Rico ) is a Puerto Rican actress and beauty pageant titleholder who was the fourth woman from her country to win the Miss Universe contest.

On the night of the Miss Universe 2002 contest, she passed on her crown, once again in Puerto Rico ( this time the event was held in the city of San Juan ), to Oxana Fedorova of Russia.

The Turkey Trot festival also includes a Miss Turkey Trot Pageant, a Miss Drumsticks Competition ( best legs ), dinners, musical entertainment, a 5 kilometer run, a parade ( which has included former Arkansas governor and former presidential candidate Mike Huckabee ), and a nationally recognized turkey calling contest sponsored by the National Wild Turkey Federation.

There is also a beauty contest for different age groups where the winner is crowned Miss and Little Miss Swine Time.

Events include a tractor pull, demolition derby, tuff truck competition, figure 8 race, horse show, battle of the bands, Miss Moniteau County Queen contest, baby show and a rodeo.

Events include the Little Miss Apalachin contest, fireworks and a large parade.

Hamler is the home town of Kelly Creager, who served as Miss Ohio for 1997 and represented Ohio in the Miss America contest.

Grand Rapids is the hometown of Robyn Hancock, the 1996 Miss Ohio who represented Ohio in the Miss America contest.

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And so when Miss Langford came to teach at the one-room Chestnut school, where Jack was a pupil in the eighth grade, the Woman of Jack's mind assumed the teacher's face and figure.

Miss Langford ( her first name was Evelyn ) was an attractive girl.

School began in August, the hottest part of the year, and for the first few days Miss Langford was very lenient with the children, letting them play a lot and the new ones sort of get acquainted with one another.

Miss Langford, in a fresh white dress and low-heeled white sandals, without socks, was out there with them, trying to get them inside.

Then when Miss Langford was on the end of the line of girls, Jack, in the middle of the line, gave an extra hard pull and the young teacher sprawled backwards, sitting down hard, her dress flying over her head.

While she was struggling to get her skirt down and get on her feet again, Jack ran over, offered her his hand and said, `` Gosh, I'm sorry, Miss Langford.

Jack walked off alone out the road in the searing midday sun, past Robert Allen's three-room, tarpapered house, toward the field where the other boys were playing ball, thinking of what he would do in order to make Miss Langford have him stay in after school -- because this was the day he had decided when he thought he saw the look in her eyes.

That should do it, he thought, because Miss Langford had said she was going to be strict about school work.

Besides, Miss Henrietta -- as she was generally known since she had put up her hair with a chignon in the back -- had little time to spare them from her teaching and writing ; ;

In any case, Miss Millay's sweet-throated bitterness, her variations on the theme that the world was not only well lost for love but even well lost for lost love, her constant and wonderfully tragic posture, so unlike that of Fitzgerald since it required no scenery or props, drew from the me that I was when I fell upon her verses an overwhelming yea.

Paula says that even though Carl's letters usually began, `` Dear Miss Steichen '', there was an understanding from the beginning that they would become husband and wife.

But he had delayed accepting this job, and as he was leaving to come home to Papa in response to our telegram, he dropped a postcard to Miss McCrady, head of the Harvard Appointment Office, asking her please to write Northwestern authorities and explain the circumstances.

Since she could not act, one part suited her as well as any other, and so she was the first person to offer Mr. Lincoln a glass of water, holding it up to the box, high above her head, to Miss Harris, who had asked for it.

Most of them had seen Our American Cousin before, and unless Miss Keene was on stage, there was not much to it.

There was a little blood on the hem of her dress, for the assassin had slashed Miss Harris's companion, Major Rathbone, with a knife.

`` To Be Left Behind '' was printed at the top in Miss Ada ; ;

In the living room, Miss Ada was standing by the window with a sheaf of lists in her hand.

Miss Ada was looking fine ; ;

Never a `` quick study '', he now made no attempt to learn his `` lines '' and many a mile of film was wasted, many a scene -- sometimes involving as many as a thousand fellow thespians -- was taken thirty, forty, fifty times because Miss Poitrine's co-star and `` helpmate '' had never learned his part.