Word: successful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...swords and spears through his chest. "I am no artist," Dajo said, "but a prophet. If you believe in God, your will can dominate your body. People wouldn't believe me if I started to talk. But after seeing my invulnerability they will." The act was a great success. So many people fainted that waiters demanded payment of checks before each performance...
Even before he began work on The Doctor in 1891 Sir Luke knew it would be a great success: "more terrible, perhaps, but yet more beautiful," than anything else he had done. A careful workman, he first built in his London studio, like a movie set, the cottage interior he intended to use.'Copying that on canvas, and painting the dawn stealing in the prop window, Fildes inserted the characters he had in mind: worried parents hovering in the shadows, their sick little girl feverishly sleeping in the light of an oil lamp, and the bearded doctor leaning over...
Pleased by his Paris success, Manno is even more excited by the treat he has in store for his 71-year-old uncle, with whom he lives in Venice. In Naples next fall, Manno hopes to conduct the first Italian performance in more than 20 years of Uncle Ermanno's The Jewels of the Madonna. Mussolini had banned it because, he said, its story of Neopolitan hoodlumism gave Italy a bad name...
...back in Manhattan to be the first soloist o'f the season with the New York Philharmonic-Symphony in the an nual summer concerts in Lewisohn Sta dium. To his native gifts, which he would be the last to call genius, he had added the three Ps of success: 1) patronage, 2) plug ging. 3) practice...
...underground Défense de la France. They renamed it France-Soir, packed it with straight news for Parisians who got almost everything but news in most of the French press. France-Soir pushed swiftly to France's top circulation (about 600,000 daily). U.S. newsmen credit its success to shrewd application of tried-&-true U.S. tricks: big, crisp headlines, heavy accent on crime, bright feature stories and splashy makeup. Although he dashes off headlines with oldfashioned, wooden pens, Lazareff comes closer than any other French journalist to the "U.S. idea of a star managing editor...