Word: pageants
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...stress paid off this weekend, when Gray beat out 15 other contestants to take the 2003 Miss Rhode Island crown and earn a ticket to the biggest beauty pageant of all—September’s Miss America competition...
...carried Friday’s pageant on the strength of her violin concerto, a platform advocating music education in public schools, floral pattern evening gown and blue one-piece bathing suit...
Hollywood could not have dreamed up a more singular tale. Lynch, a onetime Miss Congeniality winner in the beauty pageant at her county fair, enlisted in the Army out of necessity, to help pay for the college education she needed to become a kindergarten teacher. Her odyssey began on the evening of March 23, when she and 14 other soldiers from her convoy of the 507th Maintenance Company were ambushed on or near Highway 1, a main north-south artery into Baghdad. Though the details of that night and the following days remain hazy, at least five of the soldiers...
Last weekend my “reign” as Maryland’s Junior Miss came to an end, a year after I entered the pageant on a whim. Billed as a “scholarship program for accomplished high school seniors,” America’s Junior Miss program looked like a good chance to get some money for Harvard. Though my mother never forced false eyelashes on my three-year-old self in an attempt to capture the Mid-Atlantic Miss Dream Girl title, my first cousin, Miss America 1979 had been pestering...
...found myself, participant seven of ten, a little out of my league. Most of the girls were old hat (crown?) to the pageant scene—former Miss Chesapeakes, Miss Teen Marylands to name a few. Junior Miss is a little different from traditional pageants—heavy emphasis on academics, talent and interview, and only high school seniors are allowed to compete...