Second Prize in A Beauty Contest
Inspired by the Golden Mermaid Bathing Beauty contest held from 1920 until 2004 in Atlantic City, "Second prize in a beauty contest" is an expression found on a Community Chest card, which reads in full: "You have won second prize in a beauty contest, collect $10." The expression has become something of a joke among Monopoly players and is sometimes used for humorous effect in other contexts, for instance being applied to the opposition response speech to the United States' president's annual State of the Union address.
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Famous quotes containing the words prize, beauty and/or contest:
“Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.”
—Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919)
“Flowers ... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“By his mere quiet power, on the minds of the now contestants, He could have either saved or destroyed the Union without a human contest. Yet the contest began. And having begun He could give the final victory to either side any day. Yet the contest proceeds.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)