There were the unabashed helpings of male pulchritude served up by the sportswear designers Parke & Ronen.
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Back then, as today, the concentration of pulchritude on any given afternoon inspired a collective libidinous frenzy.
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Feminine pulchritude mattered to Balanchine; many of his dancers had the looks of the movie stars or models of their day.
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"It has more punch and pulchritude packed into its 51 minutes than most West End musicals twice as long," one newspaper commented.
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Capricious and baffling as Americans can be, they do seem to prioritize other qualities above looks, and pulchritude is in the eye of the voter.
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Almost cartoonish in its embodiment of traditional standards of pulchritude, the outfit's excess and resplendence prepare us for more wildly abstract interpretations of beauty throughout the exhibition.
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Reviewing "The Last Man" in The New York Times, Mordaunt Hall found it "rather in the Mack Sennett vein, ladened with the pulchritude of the Hollywood studio variety."
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Ingres's painting "The Turkish Bath," with its innumerable nude women, is a classic of the genre; it turns us all into voyeurs, marveling at so dense an array of feminine pulchritude.
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Female pulchritude, as shown by dance, is where Nrityagram begins; but these dances show how humanity possesses soul, how one person can depict nature and how the universe is present in the individual.
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Researchers have long known that people choose friends who are much like themselves in a wide array of characteristics: of a similar age, race, religion, socioeconomic status, educational level, political leaning, pulchritude rating, even handgrip strength.
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But the deeper story of how he brought the Miss Universe pageant to Moscow — a classic Trumpian tale of money, power and pulchritude — does shed fresh light on the business interests and personal contacts that have helped to shape his views about the country.
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So, for the sake of this venerable pageant, let's hope the hopefuls display gratitude and pulchritude, rather than crassitude and attitude.
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On Google Books Subjected to antisemitic attacks and political pressure, she withdrew from the International Pageant of Pulchritude "Miss Universe" competition in April 1929.
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Miss Austria Lisl Goldarbeiter also competed at the International Pageant of Pulchritude 1929; she won. Misses England, France, Holland, and Luxembourg also competed, but did not place.
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In 1930, Critical magazine took over the event. In the same year, the winner of Miss Argentina (Celia Basavilbaso of Chaco) competed for the title of Miss Universe, in the International Pageant of Pulchritude, for the first time. In 1932, the News Carts Newspaper Corporation began organizing Miss Argentina and that year's winner, Ana Rover, competed in the penultimate International Pageant of Pulchritude, which was held in Belgium. In 1937, after a five year hiatus, the competition returned and was won by Elba Tardits.
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Charlotte Wassef (; ; 15 July 1912 - 17 January 1988) was born in Alexandria in a Coptic family. She was Egyptian crowned Miss Egypt 1934, and also won International Pageant of Pulchritude, the predecessor of Miss Universe, in 1935 in Brussels.
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The 3rd annual International Pageant of Pulchritude was held at Galveston, Texas. With 42 contestants (32 American and 10 foreign) in the pageant, 10 contestants won cash prizes and one won the grand prize, the title of "Miss Universe".
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Los Angeles Times. Part VI, p. 6. Variety wrote, "As before there's strong accent on pulchritude and near-nudity via brief attire", adding that the script "makes no effort to keep the narrative either taut or logical.""Film Reviews: Pajama Party". Variety.
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The Pageant of Pulchritude served as a model for modern pageants.Savage (1998), pg. 33 Though beauty contests were common even in the 19th century, the Galveston event was the first international contest. It was also one of the first national contests in the United States.
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Post coronation, many people were disappointed in her pulchritude. It caused the spreading of a lot of humorous materials on the web. Also, she was often a victim of racial abuse due to her non-Russian origin. She closed her social network accounts after repeated abuse by trolls.
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Vorel laughs at the casting of Mel Torme as the movie's antagonist, although he appreciates Mamie Van Doren's pulchritude, even if she were years older than the juvenile delinquent she was supposed to be playing. Vorel calls the movie "one of the more inherently watchable dramas ever featured on the show".Ranking Every MST3K Episode, From Worst to Best.
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This was followed by "Pulchritude", "Black-Haired Beautiful Girl", "Vogue", and "Honey Trap" while each of these songs had different costume. Tsai made a music and dance cover of Madonna song "Vogue" in tribute to her icon Madonna. After performing "Honey Trap", Tsai performed voguing with American dancer Benny Ninja. During "Parachute", a giant Christmas wreath was then lowered onstage, and Tsai sang the song while sitting on the wreath.
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9 Other famous locations on this road included Murdoch's Bath House, the Buccaneer Hotel, the Pleasure Pier, and the Mountain Speedway roller coaster.Cartwright (1998), pg. 194 Miller (1993), pg. 185 Bath Houses and Boulevard, Galveston, Texas [The Murdoch] (postcard, circa 1915-1924)Murdoch's Bathhouse Wreckage after 1915 Galveston Hurricane The boulevard became the focal point for tourism events such as the International Pageant of Pulchritude of the 1920s, the first international beauty contest.
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Dancing Forever () is the third remix album by Taiwanese singer Jolin Tsai. It was released on 29 September 2006, by Capitol Music Taiwan. The album was in support of her second concert tour, Dancing Forever World Tour, and contains remixes of tracks from her studio album, Dancing Diva (2006), and seven new tracks. It also contains a video that chronicles Tsai's Pulchritude Concert at Kaohsiung Cultural Center in Kaohsiung, Taiwan on 1 July 2006.
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In the patriarchal world of invasion literature, interracial sexual relations were "a fate worse than death" for a white woman, afterwards, she was a sexual untouchable to white men. In the 1890s, that moralistic theme was the anti-Chinese message of the feminist and labor organizer Rose Summerfield who voiced the White woman's sexual fear of the Yellow Peril, by warning society of the Chinese man's unnaturally lustful gaze upon the pulchritude of Australian women.
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On 5 June 2013 Harriet announced the release of her first single track, "In The Basement", that was released digitally onto various download and streaming platforms such as Amazon.com, ITunes and Spotify. The track then gained national airplay on programs such as BBC Radio 1. "In The Basement" further gained rave reviews, such as Independent Music News calling her, "the personification of pulchritude" and Mojophenia suggesting "Harriet Jones is very attractive lady destined to become a major soulful phenomenon".
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Catherine May Moylan (July 4, 1904September 9, 1969) was an American film and television actress, model, and beauty queen who won the 1926 International Pageant of Pulchritude. She subsequently appeared in two Broadway productions before having a short film career, including roles in Our Blushing Brides and Love in the Rough (both 1930). From the mid-1930s onward, Moylan spent the remainder of her life living outside the public eye in Fort Worth, Texas, where she died in 1969 of heart failure.
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Bathing beauty contest, USA, 1920 In May 1920, promoter C.E. Barfield of Galveston, Texas organized a new event known as "Splash Day" on the island. The event featured a "Bathing Girl Revue" competition as the centerpiece of its attractions. The event was the kick-off of the summer tourist season in the city and was carried forward annually. The event quickly became known outside of Texas and, beginning in 1926, the world's first international contest was added, known as the International Pageant of Pulchritude.
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The International Pageant of Pulchritude, also known as Miss Universe or the International Beauty Contest, was a beauty contest that began in 1920, featuring contestants from multiple nations. This pageant originated the title "Miss Universe" and was the first international contest. The last pageant event in the United States was held in 1931 although additional Miss Universe events were held until 1935. This contest served as a model for modern contests that began after World War II. The contest originated in Galveston, Texas, United States.
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In the entertainment sector, various ploys were used to attract tourists. In 1920, an annual beauty contest, named the Pageant of Pulchritude (also known as the Miss Universe contest) in 1926, was started in Galveston by C.E. Barfield, manager of a local amusement park owned by the Maceos.Stein (2006), p. 37. The contest was part of Splash Day, the kick-off of the summer tourist season each year, and became the first international beauty contest, attracting participants from England, Russia, Turkey, and many other nations until its demise in 1932.
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International Pageant of Pulchritude 1930 competition. A beauty pageant or beauty contest is a competition that has traditionally focused on judging and ranking the physical attributes of the contestants, although most contests have evolved to also incorporate personality traits, intelligence, talent, and a contestant's ability to answer judges' questions on various subjects as judged criteria. The term refers largely to contests for women such as the Big Four international beauty pageants. Hundreds of thousands of beauty contests are held annually, but the Big Four are considered the most prestigious, widely covered and broadcast by media.
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That same year she attended the International Pageant of Pulchritude in Galveston, Texas, and won the title of Miss Universe (not to be confused with the later Miss Universe founded in 1952). With this success, she established a successful vaudeville act. Although she had received better offers, she decided to enter the vaudeville circuit, because she believed it would enable her to help her friend Dorothy Lamour rise to fame, a promise she had made shortly before winning the Miss Universe title at the Pageant."Dorothy Lamour Succeeds Though Death Steps in", Milwaukee Sentinel, July 16, 1936, p.
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A trend toward national beauty contests developed in many nations such as Turkey, France, and Brazil, as well as the United States where both the Galveston event and the younger Miss America event in Atlantic City attracted contestants from around the nation. In 1926, taking advantage of this trend, the Galveston event became an international competition known as the International Pageant of Pulchritude. The winner of the contest was awarded the title of Miss Universe. In 1927 the contest became two separate events held over two days: one to award the title of "Miss United States" and one to award Miss Universe.
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Competition to win the crown of Miss Brasil began in the 1920s, following a trend throughout the world during that period. A famous controversy occurred when Miss Brasil 1929 competed in the International Pageant of Pulchritude, known as "Miss Universe" in the 1930s, but failed to place in the competition, much less win. The angered Brazilians hosted their own international pageant in 1930 leading to two separate "Miss Universe" titles that year, not related to the modern Miss Universe competition created in 1952. In the Brazilian "Miss Universe", Miss Brasil won the title while in the other competition in the US, Miss United States received the crown of Miss Universe 1930.
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A 2006 documentary entitled Miss Universe 1929 - Lisl Goldarbeiter: A Queen in Wien was released in Hungary detailing the life of the 1929 Miss Universe. That year is regarded by some as the first truly international event as it became the first year to garner substantial worldwide media attention and was the first year a non-American won the title. Additionally, Goldarbeiter's win is historically notable because she was a Jew in an era when antisemitism was popular in the U.S. and Europe. The title of the pageant was parodied by science-fiction author Keith Laumer in his story "Retief and the Pangalactic Pageant of Pulchritude".
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Te place selected is one frequented by the middle class, where she feels she will he free from the tormenting attentions of the male sex that her beauty has induced in the past. She arrives without ostentation accompanied only by her maid, but her extreme pulchritude and graceful bearing soon enraptured the male contingent of the place to the jealous rage of the other women folks who find themselves deserted. She cannot stir but what there is a score of admirers present. A walk on the beach, a stroll through the park is invariably attended by a regiment of gallants, until to her they become positive pests, is destined to pass time in the seclusion of her room.
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" In other words, the young man possesses all the positive qualities of a woman, without all of her negative qualities. The narrator seems to believe that the young man is as beautiful as any woman, but is also more faithful and less fickle. Kolin also argues that, "numerous, though overlooked, sexual puns run throughout this indelicate panegyric to Shakespeare's youthful friend." He suggests the reference to the youth's eyes, which gild the objects upon which they gaze, may also be a pun on "gelding…The feminine beauty of this masculine paragon not only enhances those in his sight but, with the sexual meaning before us, gelds those male admirers who temporarily fall under the sway of the feminine grace and pulchritude housed in his manly frame.
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Rachel Howard grew up on a farm in Easington, County Durham. She attended a Quaker school from the age of sixteen, and the stories, concerns and questions raised by religion have had a profound effect on her work throughout her career.Hubbard, Sue "Towards Meaning: The Abstract Paintings of Rachel Howard" in Rachel Howard -New Paintings Pulchritude Press, 2007 > I went to a Quaker school and it had such a powerful effect on my life that > I've carried it with me ever since. I'm an atheist now but Quakerism was the > first time as a child I came across a religious structure that made some > sense … the silence, contemplation, the acknowledgement of our > responsibilities not just to each other but also to nature, they are > pacifists.
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In addition to providing a spacious venue for the viewing of films, the stage of the Whiteside Theatre also served as a public auditorium for community events, including a patriotic Memorial Day program in May 1928 under the auspices of the local post of the American Legion."Plans Completed for Memorial Day Observance Here," Corvallis Gazette-Times, May 28, 1928, pg. 1. In April 1929 the Whiteside was the site of the first citywide beauty contest in Corvallis, with the winner outfitted by local merchants and sent on an all expenses paid trip to the 10th annual International Pageant of Pulchritude (today's "Miss Universe" pageant) in Galveston, Texas as the representative of Oregon."Corvallis Girls Asked to Compete in Beauty Contest," Corvallis Gazette-Times, April 3, 1929, pg. 1.
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However, not much more is needed when patrons can look at Russell-Monroe lines as displayed in slick costumes and Technicolor." Harrison's Reports wrote: "Both Jane Russell and Marilyn Monroe are nothing short of sensational in the leading roles. They not only act well, but the sexy manner in which they display their song, dance and pulchritude values just about sets the screen on fire and certainly is crowd-pleasing, judging by the thunderous applause at the preview after each of the well-staged musical numbers." John McCarten of The New Yorker wrote that the two leads "have a good deal of enthusiasm, and occasionally their exuberance offsets the tedium of one long series of variations on the sort of anatomical joke that used to amuse the customers of Minsky so inordinately.
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A variant Yellow Peril seductress is presented in the white savior romance between a "White Knight" from the West and a "Lotus Blossom" from the East; each redeems the other by way of mutual romantic love. Despite being a threat to the passive sexuality of white women, the romantic narrative favorably portrays the Lotus Blossom character as a woman who needs the love of a white man to rescue her from objectification by a flawed Asian culture. As a heroine, the Lotus-Blossom-woman is an ultra-feminine model of Asian pulchritude, social grace, and culture, whose own people trapped her in an inferior, gender- determined social-class. Only a white man can rescue her from such a cultural impasse, thereby, the narrative reaffirms the moral superiority of the Western world.
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It found that calculus students got higher marks on common course examinations when they had instructors with high SET scores but did worse when they took later courses requiring calculus. The authors discuss a number of possible explanations for this finding, including that instructors with higher SET scores may have concentrated their teaching on the common examinations in the course rather than giving students a deeper understanding for later courses. Hamermesh and West (2005) find that students at the University of Texas at Austin gave attractive instructors higher SET scores than less attractive instructors.Hamermesh, D. S., & Parker, A. (2005). Beauty in the classroom: instructors’ pulchritude and putative pedagogical productivity. Economics of Education Review, 24(4), 369–376. However, the authors conclude that it may not be possible to determine if attractiveness increases the effectiveness of an instructor, possibly resulting in better learning outcomes.
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