Her temper sparked like charcoal when it first lights up.

Her first day at work she was puzzled by an entry in the doctor's notes on an emergency case.

Her first class wasn't until ten, but she always got up to have breakfast with me.

Her first actual flight, for she and her kind had made mock flights on dummy panels since she was eight, showed her complete mastery of the techniques of her profession.

Her first appearance was in a short story published in The Sketch magazine in 1926, " The Tuesday Night Club ", which later became the first chapter of The Thirteen Problems ( 1932 ).

Her first appearance in a full-length novel was in The Murder at the Vicarage in 1930.

Her mother ’ s marriage to Agrippa was her second marriage, as Julia the Elder was widowed from her first marriage, to her paternal cousin Marcus Claudius Marcellus and they had no children.

Her reputed last words, uttered as the assassin was about to strike, were " Smite my womb ", the implication here being she wished to be destroyed first in that part of her body that had given birth to so " abominable a son.

Her second and last novel, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, which is considered to be one of the first sustained feminist novels, appeared in 1848.

Her first marriage, at the age of fifteen, was to the son of her father's rival in Italy, Lothair II, the nominal King of Italy ; the union was part of a political settlement designed to conclude a peace between her father and Hugh of Provence, the father of Lothair.

Her goal was to become the first Christian singer-songwriter who was also successful as a contemporary pop singer.

Her father's grandfather had fled France during the Revolution, going first to Saint-Domingue, then New Orleans, and finally to Cuba where he helped build that country's first railway.

Her first published work was a critical evaluation of D. H. Lawrence called D. H. Lawrence: An Unprofessional Study, which she wrote in sixteen days.

Her work was selected for exhibition in six subsequent Salons until, in 1874, she joined the " rejected " Impressionists in the first of their own exhibitions, which included Paul Cézanne, Edgar Degas, Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and Alfred Sisley.

Her first school was located in a 17th-century house.

Her first act surprises Odrade greatly.

Her mother, Kay Calista, reversed her own first and middle names in naming her Calista Kay.

Her report, Work Accidents and the Law ( 1910 ), became a classic and resulted in the first workers ' compensation law, which she drafted while serving on a New York state commission.

Her first stories appeared in pulp magazines in the 1930s, including two significant series in Weird Tales.

Her first name, Drew, was the maiden name of her paternal great-grandmother, Georgie Drew Barrymore ; her middle name, Blyth, was the original surname of the dynasty founded by her great-grandfather, Maurice Barrymore.

Her recording of " Sentimental Journey " was the first song placed in the Grammy Hall of Fame.

Her first country single, " Dumb Blonde " ( one of the few songs during this era, that she recorded but did not write ), reached number twenty-four on the country music charts in 1967, followed the same year with Something Fishy, which went to number seventeen.

Her first entirely self-produced effort, 1977's New Harvest ... First Gathering, highlighted Parton's pop sensibilities, both in terms of choice of songs-the album contained covers of the pop and R & B classics " My Girl " and " Higher and Higher " – and the album's production.

" Her combination of attractive appearance – centered around her large eyes – and somewhat distant and understated manner made her hard at first for MGM to cast and publicize.

Her strategy worked, and MGM cast her in the film where she first made an impression on audiences, Edmund Goulding's Sally, Irene and Mary ( 1925 ).

Her brother, Douglas Shearer, was instrumental in the development of sound at MGM, and every care was taken to prepare her for the microphone.

Her performance caught the attention of Louis B. Mayer, chief executive of Metro Goldwyn Mayer ( MGM ), who brought her to Hollywood in 1925.

Her writing partnership with Adolph Green lasted for six decades, during which time they collaborated with other leading entertainment figures such as the famed " Freed Unit " at MGM, Jule Styne and Leonard Bernstein.

" Her first starring role for MGM was scheduled to be an adaptation of The Sea-Wolf, co-starring Clark Gable, but the project was eventually canned.

Her now-famous response to the success of the film, made under protest in order to fulfill a contractual obligation to MGM before being allowed to depart to 20th Century Fox to make Cleopatra: " I still say it stinks.

Her comeback came in a dual role as a young actress, Elsa Brinkmann, and an early-day movie goddess who was murdered, Lylah Clare, in producer-director Robert Aldrich's The Legend of Lylah Clare ( 1968 ) with Peter Finch and Ernest Borgnine for MGM.

Her first task at MGM would be a screen test for Red-Headed Woman.

Her first MGM film was The Cat and the Fiddle ( 1934 ), based on the Jerome Kern Broadway hit.

Her performances in her second MGM film, Our Dancing Daughters ( 1928 ) opposite Joan Crawford ( with whom she appeared in three films ), and The Broadway Melody ( 1929 ) opposite Bessie Love were her greatest successes of the period, and her popularity allowed her to make a smooth transition into talking pictures.

Her first film after leaving MGM was Our Daily Bread ( 1934 ), directed by King Vidor.

Her contract was picked up by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ( MGM ) to place her singing skills as a threat to Jeanette MacDonald, who was giving MGM fits with her difficult demands.

Her last major film was Till the Clouds Roll By ( 1946 ), but after this MGM began to lose interest in promoting her.

Her first film for MGM was with their leading male star Mickey Rooney in Love Is a Headache ( 1938 ).

Her early close friend George Hurrell later would become the legendary head of the portrait department of MGM Studios.

Her first marriage was to MGM executive Richard Berger.

Her first US / UK co-production and first US production came in 1933, and she worked in the United States under contract with MGM.