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Which of the following statements about the two-day beauty contest of 1921 is TRUE?
Which of the following statements about the two-day beauty contest of 1921 is TRUE?
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2009-06-24
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Which of the following statements about the two-day beauty contest of 1921 is TRUE?
M: In 1921, Atlantic City businessmen created a two-day beauty contest to keep tourists in town past Labor Day. This wasn’t the first beauty pageant the world had seen, but it was the one that spawned the Miss America contest. Hundreds of beauty contests have followed, but it hasn’t been all roses and tiaras. Here are a few highlights (and lowlights) in the history of beauty pageants.
The first American beauty pageant was staged in 1854 by circus magnate P.T. Barnum. But even before women’s suffrage changed the role of women in modern society, no one was terribly excited about their wives and sisters being part of a circus sideshow, and the competition didn’t last long.
Marian Bergeron won the Miss America crown in 1932. Trouble was, she was only 15 years old at the time. Pageant officials were duly upset, but another scandal kept them from setting things straight: Before they could reclaim the crown, someone stole it from Bergeron’s dressing room.
In 1935, beauty pageants needed a little boost. Enter Lenora Slaughter, a woman who would forever shape the world’s concept of the beauty pageant. Slaughter was a savvy businesswoman who pandered to the nation’s Hollywood fever, offering screen tests to Miss America winners—Dorothy Lamour was "discovered" this way. Slaughter was also the brain, behind adding the talent competition in 1938 and offering college scholarships to winners beginning in 1945. She ruled the pageant for more than 30 years.
In 1945, America crowned its first Jewish Miss America when New York’s Bess Myerson won the title, even after being told that unless she changed her name to something "less Jewish", she would never win the competition. Myerson refused and won anyway, though her reign was not without controversy, Catalina swimsuits, the Miss America swimsuit supplier, did not ask Myerson to be a spokeswoman for their product, even though every queen before her had inked a deal.
选项
A、America had its first Miss America from New York.
B、America had its first Miss America with her name changed.
C、Miss America of the year refused to be the spokeswoman for a swimsuit supplier.
D、The discrimination against Jewish was observed.
答案
D
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