Word: successful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Every corner of the world would be affected by the Labor Party's success or failure. All men, therefore, had a right to sit in judgment on the Labor Party; but the clearest right and the highest competence to judge was that of the wise, patient and perceptive British electorate, which had placed its lives and its liberties in Labor's hands...
Under Morrison's leadership, the L.C.C. became known all over the world as a model of progressive local government. This success had two important political effects: Laborites got a reputation as efficient administrators rather than theorists; Morrison's concentration on London narrowed his political base. Britons outside of London still think of him as a "fly little Cockney," a bright fellow, but not necessarily one to be trusted...
...Madame Butterfly. Says 32-year-old Ellabelle Davis: "I want to prove that a Negro artist doesn't have to stay in his own backyard. In a singer, it is the color of the voice and not of the face which matters. If I'm a success in Aïda I will carry the fight to the doors...
...following season Cugat took his polite rhumbas to Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria, and later broke attendance records. Cugat credits much of his success to his female vocalists. He selects them "80% on looks and 20% on what goes into the ears. A man can't understand what my girl sings, but if he likes to look at her then I'm all right." Floorshow dancers are also handpicked. One of them, Cugat's niece, became Broadway Actress Margo; another became Hollywood's Rita Hayworth...
...couldn't get in to see the secretary to the secretary. Now I will get $5,000 and the manager of the symphony comes to my house with the contract. . . . You've got to be a personality. Even Toscanini and Stokowski owe part of their success to showmanship. And take a man like Iturbi. He has the hands of a woodchopper and yet people think he is a great pianist. They really don't go to hear Iturbi the pianist. They go to see Iturbi the movie star...