Word: utah
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...memories of the "ole swim in' hole" will pass with other discarded antiquities. In France and England, even the women athletes wear the convenient "shorts" condemned for everyone in Arkansas; such brazen people would probably be guillotined here. The next legislature will no doubt design evening dresses. In Utah, Kansas, and South Dakota, smoking is unlawful. What could be more inconsistent than raising cigarette funds to help "win the war", and then stamping out the "deadly weed" as soon as its usefulness is not so apparent...
...UTAH: Ernest Bamberger, Republican Senatorial candidate in 1922, and three of his friends were arrested for smoking in a Salt Lake City cafe. Other arrests were also made. Utah has a law prohibiting smoking in public and the sale of cigarettes. The Freeman's League is agitating for the repeal of the law. The Mormon Church is in favor of the anti-tobacco legislation...
Instead of electing a greatest woman of all time, however, the people usually seek the most beautiful woman in America. Recently the papers were filled with pictures of rural belles from Utah, Timbuctoo, and Chicago; then all these lovely damsels convened at Atlantic City, where that epicure of feminine beauty, Mr. Florenz Ziegfeld selected from them Miss America,--now on her way to Hollywood...
...process of selection of Rhodes Scholars is somewhat complicated. For the year 1922-23, there will be one scholarship filled from every state in the Union except the following sixteen: Arizona, Delaware, Florida, Idaho, Louisiana, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Utah, West Virginia and Wyoming...
...December 3, 1921; and if a suitable candidate offers, there will be one scholarship filled for the year 1922-1923 from every state in the Union except the following sixteen: Arizona, Delaware, Florida, Idaho, Louisiana, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Utah, West Virginia and Wyoming. The qualifying examination formerly required has been abandoned...