Download or read book Miss Kansas Pageant written by Miss Kansas Scholarship Pageant for Miss America and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Miss Kansas Scholarship Pageant written by Miss Kansas Scholarship Pageant for Miss America and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Miss Kansas City Kitty Doris Markham s Story written by Deborah Dilks and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2020-01-24 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Miss Kansas City Kitty: Doris Markham’s Story By: Deborah Dilks Doris Markham’s Story takes you back to Kansas City in the 1930s and 1940s as well as rural Missouri living at the turn of the twentieth century. Join Doris on her escapades through three marriages and a dozen boyfriends. Miss Kansas City Kitty Doris Markham’s Story is based on a true story about one spirited country girl’s struggles to survive in the Kansas City when it was a wild town; some called it “The Paris of the Plains” with illegal gambling, speakeasies, gangsters, barbecue and jazz. Her story is a love story, okay several love stories mixed with drama and comedy. People described Doris Markham as a pistol, a free spirit and stubborn. She could be called an early woman’s rights activist because she often said “What’s right for the goose, is right for the gander”. In this book you will see Kansas City from a working girl’s view and find gangsters, kidnapping, murder, prostitution, speakeasies, supper clubs, bars and even a famous person or two. When Doris won a Kansas City Kitty competition, her life changed.
Download or read book Miss Black Teenage America Beauty Pageant written by Kansas State Teachers College of Emporia and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Miss Kansas City written by Joan Frank and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2009-08-13 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Miss Kansas City is the story of an improbable friendship, set in the tumultuous mid-80s dotcom California, where youthful greed and blinkered innocence arrive intertwined. Friendless and reclusive, Alex Blue commutes two hours each way to a job that serves mainly as a place to bide time, until one day she meets the wealthy, worldly—and married—owner of a high-concept Bay Area lifestyle company. Meanwhile, the melancholy and closeted Morton Levi, yearning for a loving partner but stung by prior experience, lives a secret life outside the software information company he manages with a steady, efficient hand—the same company where Alex works. As ominous rumors of mergers and layoffs swirl, and Alex and Mort are pushed to the emotional brink by the vagaries of love, they find themselves forging an unexpected alliance. Miss Kansas City is a moving exploration of the notion of possibility, and of a seasoned hope that can emerge on the other side of loneliness and loss. Joan Frank is the author of the story collection Boys Keep Being Born, which was both a Bay Area Book Reviewers’ Award and Paterson Fiction Award finalist. Her stories appear in many journals and anthologies, including The Antioch Review,The Iowa Review, and Salmagundi. She is a MacDowell Colony and VCCA Fellow, Pushcart Prize nominee, recipient of a Barbara Deming Grant, and winner of the Iowa Fiction Award and Emrys Fiction Award. She lives in Northern California. Miss Kansas City is her first novel.
Download or read book Pageant written by Olive Honn and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Jet written by and published by . This book was released on 1992-10-05 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The weekly source of African American political and entertainment news.
Download or read book Pretty Smart written by Penny Pearlman and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2008-12-17 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If being smart isn’t enough to guarantee success, then what is? Being pretty smart is the key – that is, having passion, commitment, resilience and a firm belief that you can achieve your dreams. So who has been smart and “pretty"? In the pages of Pretty Smart you will find the insights, wisdom and stories from twenty-two former Miss Americas, who are not just pretty but pretty smart, and how they pursued their passions all the way to professional and personal success. With their thoughtful intelligence and insightful eloquence these women shatter the myth that the Pageant is “just a beauty contest.” Their stories, woven into a tapestry of inspiration and wisdom, prove that it takes vision, discipline, drive and, yes, brains to win the crown.
Download or read book There She Was written by Amy Argetsinger and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-11-08 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Washington Post style editor’s fascinating and irresistible look back on the Miss America pageant as it approaches its 100th anniversary. The sash. The tears. The glittering crown. And of course, that soaring song. For all its pomp and kitsch, the Miss America pageant is indelibly written into the American story of the past century. From its giddy origins as a summer’s-end tourist draw in Prohibition-era Atlantic City, it blossomed into a televised extravaganza that drew tens of millions of viewers in its heyday and was once considered the highest honor that a young woman could achieve. For two years, Washington Post reporter and editor Amy Argetsinger visited pageants and interviewed former winners and contestants to unveil the hidden world of this iconic institution. There She Was spotlights how the pageant survived decades of social and cultural change, collided with a women’s liberation movement that sought to abolish it, and redefined itself alongside evolving ideas about feminism. For its superstars—Phyllis George, Vanessa Williams, Gretchen Carlson—and for those who never became household names, Miss America was a platform for women to exercise their ambitions and learn brutal lessons about the culture of fame. Spirited and revelatory, There She Was charts the evolution of the American woman, from the Miss America catapulted into advocacy after she was exposed as a survivor of domestic violence to the one who used her crown to launch a congressional campaign; from a 1930s winner who ran away on the night of her crowning to a present-day rock guitarist carving out her place in this world. Argetsinger dissects the scandals and financial turmoil that have repeatedly threatened to kill the pageant—and highlights the unexpected sisterhood of Miss Americas fighting to keep it alive.
Download or read book Pageant written by Keith Lovegrove and published by Te Neues Publishing Company. This book was released on 2002 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lovegrove celebrates the culture of the beauty contest from the well-known spectacles of Miss World and Mr. Universe to the flamboyance of Miss Sausage Queen. An irresistible combination of nostalgia and contemporary kitsch, this is a unique study of the human obsession of the beautiful. 250 illustrations.
Download or read book Mrs Kansas City Kitty written by Deborah Dilks and published by Gatekeeper Press. This book was released on 2020-08-25 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a continuation of stories in the life of “Miss Kansas City Kitty - Doris Markham’s Story.” As the book opens, Doris is married to her third husband, Martin Swinney, and has a ready-made family. We join the family in 1949, when they move back to Doris’s hometown of Jameson, Missouri, and her mother’s farm. Neither Marty nor his children have ever lived on a farm. Marty’s war injuries are still plaguing him, as he tries to support his family while going in and out of the hospital. Doris goes back to work in Kansas City during the turbulent 1960s and the race riots. In this book, you will see life in north Missouri during the 1950s and 1960s and Doris’s experiences raising teenagers during that time from both rural and urban perspectives. There will be highs and lows, good times and bad in Doris’s life as the years go by quickly. Doris lived to be 96 - almost 97 -years old, and this book will explore the last half of her life.
Download or read book Black Hole Focus written by Isaiah Hankel and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-05-05 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "...an absurdly motivating book." –A.J. Jacobs, New York Times bestselling author Don’t get stuck on a career path you have no passion for. Don’t waste your intelligence on something that doesn’t really mean anything more to you than a paycheck. Let Isaiah Hankel help you define a focus so powerful that everything in your life will be pulled towards it. Create your purpose and change your life. Be focused. Be fulfilled. Be successful. Black Hole Focus has been endorsed by top names in business, entrepreneurship, and academia, including 4 times New York Times bestseller AJ Jacobs and Harvard Medical School Postdoc Director Dr. Jim Gould. The book is broken up into 3 different sections; the first section shows you why you need a purpose in life, the second section shows you how to find your new purpose, and the third section shows you how to achieve your goals when facing adversity. In this book, you will learn: How to understand what you really want in life and how to get it Why people with a powerful purpose live to 100 How to rapidly improve focus and change your life using the secret techniques of an international memory champion How people like Jim Carrey, Oprah Winfrey, and J.K. Rowling transformed pain into purpose How to start a business by avoiding willpower depletion and the life hack lie Black Hole Focus includes exclusive case studies from medical practitioners, research scientists, lawyers, corporate executives and small business owners who have used the techniques described in this book to achieve massive success in their own lives. About the Author: Dr. Hankel is an internationally recognized expert in the biotechnology industry and prolific public speaker. He's given over 250 seminars in 22 different countries while working with many of the world's most respected companies and institutions, including Harvard University, Oxford University, Roche Pharmaceuticals, Eli Lilly & Company, Baxter International and Pfizer. Dr. Hankel uses the science of purpose and the principles of entrepreneurship to help people achieve their biggest goals.
Download or read book The Spy Set Up written by Randy Beaumier and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2009 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sebastian Junger, and Bill Dombrowski, are two field agents for a new Federal Government Organization called N.U.T.S. (National Underground Terrorist Squad). It's their job to identify, apprehend, and in some cases, when necessary, eliminate the terrorists. They are basically counter spies for the government. Sebastian's wife, Rachel, wants a pair of diamond earrings for their 25th wedding anniversary. Bill, Sebastian's partner, introduces Sebastian to a diamonds dealer who gets murdered. In an ironic twist, the spy, Sebastian, becomes the hunted and is Set Up for what just might be the perfect murder. Somebody is going to jail.
Download or read book There She Is Miss America written by Elwood Watson and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2004-08-21 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description
Download or read book Your Best Life Now written by Joel Osteen and published by FaithWords. This book was released on 2007-09-03 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this remarkable New York Times bestseller, Joel Osteen offers unique insights and encouragement that will help readers overcome every obstacle in their lives.
Download or read book Jet written by and published by . This book was released on 1992-10-05 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The weekly source of African American political and entertainment news.
Download or read book Knights in Dark Satin written by Christopher Stoddard and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2007-05 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Miami, a mysterious consulting firm stretches its predatory tentacles across the country seeking CEOs from the ranks of failing businesses. Their newest client is Waldorf Keefer, the incompetent and self-indulgent third generation president of the largest manufacturer in a small Kansas town. This darkly humorous novel tells what happens when Keefer and the shady consultants run into unexpected resistance within the ranks of the struggling company and this community on the plains. In a battle of small town values versus corporate greed, the story turns some unexpected corners and leaves one wondering how much of it could have happened...or might.
