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success story
Wiktionary
n. 1 anecdotal evidence for the benefits of some product or policy 2 a successful person or thing
Wikipedia
Success Story may refer to:
- "Success Story" (play), a stage play by playwright and screenwriter John Howard Lawson
- "Success Story" (short story), a 1947 short story by P. G. Wodehouse, featuring the character Ukridge
- "The Success Story" (Monkees Episode), the sixth episode of the first series of TV show The Monkees
- "Success Story" (song), a song by The Who appearing on their album The Who By Numbers
- A success story is also known as a case history or case study, usually a detailed summary of an event, process or person that emphasizes what it took to make success possible and who was involved.
"Success Story" is a short story by P. G. Wodehouse, which first appeared in the United States in the March 1, 1947 issue of Argosy, under the title "Ukie Invests in Human Nature". It was included in the collection Nothing Serious, published in 1950, and features the irrepressible Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge.
Success Story was a 1932 Broadway three-act drama written by John Howard Lawson, produced by the Group Theatre and staged by Lee Strasberg with Scenic design by Mordecai Gorelik. It ran for 121 performances from September 26, 1932 to January 1933 at the Maxine Elliott's Theatre. This was actor Russell Collins' Broadway debut. Actors William Challee and Ruth Nelson were a married couple.
Usage examples of "success story".
The man was quite a success story, and his son Cando seemed to be following in the old veteran's footsteps, commanding the secret legions stationed on Ix.
Consider Cinderella, for example, the ultimate success story: Poor, maltreated girl goes to royal ball (with some magical help), has the prince fall in love with her, and, after a few complications, weds the prince and lives happily ever after.
The success story of the Manus, told and retold like a modern folk tale, is often cited as evidence that we, in the high-technology countries, will also be able to leap to a new stage of development without undue hardship.
If critical mass and take-off are important elements in any success story, there is bound to be a lot of luck, and there is also plenty of scope for manipulation and exploitation by people that understand the system.
For this reason, he did not fear for his own career, which up to now had been an uninterrupted success story.
So began the remarkable success story which resulted in modern industrialised Japan.