But her prettiness was what he had noticed first, and all the other things had come afterward: cruelty, meanness, self-will.

There was an artificial lake just out of sight in the first stand of trees, fed by a half dozen springs that popped out of the ground above the hillside orchard.

The first part of the road was steep, but it leveled off after the second bend and curled gradually into the valley.

No one was behind it, but in the rear wall of the office I noticed, for the first time, a door which had been left partially open.

The herd was watered and then thrown onto a broad grass flat which was to be the first night's bedground.

Once again, Tom Horn was the first and most likely suspect, and he was brought in for questioning immediately.

For Matilda, it was the first she had known in many a night.

Even the knowledge that she was losing another boy, as a mother always does when a marriage is made, did not prevent her from having the first carefree, dreamless sleep that she had known since they dropped down the canyon and into Bear Valley, way, way back there when they were crossing those other mountains.

Stevens was grunting over the last empty pocket when Russ abruptly rose and lunged toward Carmer's hat, which had tumbled half-a-dozen feet away when he first fell.

The Indian's arm whipped sidewise -- there was a flash of amber and froth, the crash of the bottle shattering against the side of the first car.

It was her first smile.

At first, I thought he was out of his head, talking wildly like this.

Hell, I gave him the first decent job he ever had, six, seven -- how many years ago was it, Rob ''??

Miss Langford ( her first name was Evelyn ) was an attractive girl.

School began in August, the hottest part of the year, and for the first few days Miss Langford was very lenient with the children, letting them play a lot and the new ones sort of get acquainted with one another.

It was just as well that the ignorant Dandy enjoyed himself to the hilt that first evening, for the room was to become his prison cell.

`` Bastards '', he would say, `` all I did was put a beat to that Vivaldi stuff, and the first chair clobbered me ''!!

In 1961 the first important legislative victory of the Kennedy Administration came when the principle of national responsibility for local economic distress won out over a `` state's-responsibility '' proposal -- provision was made for payment for unemployment relief by nation-wide taxation rather than by a levy only on those states afflicted with manpower surplus.

The first systematic thinking about this Pandora's box within Pandora's boxes was done four years ago by Fred Ikle, a frail, meek-mannered Swiss-born sociologist.

The smell at first was more surprising than unpleasant.

His collaboration with Washington, begun when he was the general's aide during the Revolution, was resumed when he entered the first Cabinet as Secretary of the Treasury.

Never sung in Germany, the Cabaret song was written in the 1960s by John Kander, a Jewish-American lyricist and composer.

Leonard Paul " Lenny " Zakim ( November 17, 1953-December 2, 1999 ) was a Jewish-American religious and civil rights leader in Boston.

For example, when Austrian-born neurobiologist Eric Kandel won the Nobel Prize in 2000, he " stuck it to the Austrians " by saying it was certainly not an Austrian Nobel, it was a Jewish-American Nobel.

Ed Wynn was a Jewish-American comedian who was born Isaiah Edwin Leopold in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Leon Uris was born in Baltimore, Maryland, the son of Jewish-American parents Wolf William and Anna ( Blumberg ) Uris.

Irma Brandeis ( 1905 – 1990 ) was a Jewish-American scholar of Dante Alighieri.

E. Haldeman-Julius ( né Emanuel Julius ) ( 1889 – 1951 ) was a Jewish-American socialist writer, atheist thinker, social reformer and publisher.

Leo Max Frank ( April 17, 1884 – August 17, 1915 ) was a Jewish-American factory superintendent whose hanging in 1915 by a lynch mob, planned and led by prominent citizens in Marietta, Georgia, drew attention to antisemitism in the United States.

Arthur Hertzberg ( June 9, 1921 – April 17, 2006 ) was a Conservative rabbi and prominent Jewish-American scholar and activist.

Bar-Ilan University has Jewish-American roots: it was conceived in Atlanta in a meeting of the American Mizrahi organization in 1950, and was founded by Prof. Pinkhos Churgin, an American rabbi and educator.

Kivie Kaplan ( April 1, 1904 – May 5, 1975 ) was a Jewish-American businessman and philanthropist.

Brian Michael Bendis was born on August 18, 1967 in Cleveland to a Jewish-American family.

* In 1974, Herbert H. Lehman was inducted into the Jewish-American Hall of Fame.

Syd Hoff ( September 4, 1912 Bronx, New York – May 12, 2004 ) was a Jewish-American cartoonist and children's book author.

Born in New York City's Lower East Side, Adler was a member of the Jewish-American Adler acting dynasty, the youngest daughter of Sara and Jacob P. Adler, the sister of Luther and Jay Adler, and half-sister of Charles Adler ; in fact all her five siblings were actors.

Olmert said that he took campaign contributions from Jewish-American businessman Morris Talansky when he was running for mayor of Jerusalem, leadership of the Likud and candidacy in the Likud list for the Knesset.

Meyer Levin ( October 7, 1905 – July 9, 1981 ) was a Jewish-American novelist, known for works on the Leopold and Loeb case and the Anne Frank case.

Max Weber ( April 18, 1881 – October 4, 1961 ) was a Jewish-American painter who worked in the style of cubism before migrating to Jewish themes towards the end of his life.

Krickstein is Jewish, and in the mid-1990s was one of three highly ranked Jewish-American tennis players, along with Jay Berger and Brad Gilbert.

Isadore Blumenfeld ( September 8, 1900 – June 21, 1981 ), commonly known as Kid Cann, was a Jewish-American organized crime figure based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, for over four decades and remains the most notorious mobster in the history of Minnesota.

E. M. Black ( April 9, 1921 – February 3, 1975 ) was a Jewish-American businessman who controlled the United Brands Company.