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.

For example, Elvis Costello recorded a version of Ono's song " Walking on Thin Ice ," the B-52's who drew from her early recordings covered " Don't Worry, Kyoko ( Mummy's Only Looking for Her Hand in the Snow )" ( shortening the title to " Don't Worry ") and Sonic Youth included a performance of Ono's early conceptual " Voice Piece for Soprano " in their experimental album SYR4: Goodbye 20th century.

Her recordings include many topical songs and material dealing with social issues.

While famous for classic recordings from Rod Stewart, Aretha Franklin, Eric Clapton, Lynyrd Skynyrd, the Rolling Stones and The Allman Brothers, recent hit songs such as " Before He Cheats " by Carrie Underwood and " I Loved Her First " by Heartland continue the city's musical legacy.

Her career has spanned television, comedy recordings, Broadway, and motion pictures, enjoying acclaimed success in each medium.

Her hit recordings included blues, standards, novelties, pop covers, and even a version of Hank Williams ' " Cold, Cold Heart " ( R & B Number 3, 1951 ).

Her first self-penned song to crack the Top Ten, 1966 ’ s " Dear Uncle Sam ”, was among the very first recordings to recount the human costs of the Vietnam War.

Her band, East of Eden Band, was described as the most successful at music and poetry collaborations, allowing cassettes of her live radio broadcast recordings to stay in rotation with popular underground music recordings on some radio stations.

Her 1961 recording of Sailor became her first No. 1 hit in the U. K., while such follow-up recordings as Romeo and My Friend the Sea landed her in the British Top Ten later that year.

Her recordings of several Serge Gainsbourg songs also were big sellers.

Her next two recordings also had meagre sales.

Her scores and recordings were given to the Music Division and the Rodgers & Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound, both divisions of The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.

Her final recordings with Roland and Josh White included two takes of " Shave ' Em Dry ", recorded in New York on Tuesday March 5, 1935.

Her discography features complete recordings of Die Zauberflöte ( as the Queen of Night, conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham, 1937 – 38, for EMI ), and Rigoletto, with Jan Peerce and Leonard Warren, conducted by Renato Cellini ( 1950 ) which was the first RCA Victor complete opera recording ( with a few minor cuts ) made in the United States for commercial release.

Her recordings after the late 1960s were infrequent at best, but her appearances on the Opry continued until just before her death from a stroke on October 3, 1989 at the age of 69.

Her professional career began with appearances as a solo artist and arranger with the Roger Wagner Chorale on many recordings.

Her own recordings sold mostly to a cult audience.

Her work often involves recordings of natural found sounds.

Her recordings are distributed through these labels: Lovely, XI,? What Next ?/ OO Discs, Rattle Records ( NZ ), Harmonia Mundi, Earth Ear, CRI, and Finnadar / Atlantic.

Her best recordings include a spectacular rendition of " Io son Titania " from Ambroise Thomas ' Mignon and " Saper vorreste " from Verdi's Un ballo in maschera, in which Tetrazzini's personality virtually jumps out of the grooves at the listener.

Her most celebrated recording of " How High the Moon " is on her 1960 album Ella in Berlin, and her version was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2002, which is a special Grammy award established in 1973 to honor recordings that are at least twenty-five years old, and that have " qualitative or historical significance.

Among the better known pop recordings featuring claves are the Beatles ' recording " And I Love Her ," and " Magic Bus ( song ) by The Who.

Her next major break was a record deal with Collins Classics, with whom she made fifteen recordings.

Her swing recordings with James included " Jubilee ", " I Can Dream Can't I ", Jimmy Dorsey's composition " It's The Dreamer In Me ", and " Song of the Wanderer ".

Her recordings of the hectic film process were all recorded and later released in her memoir Notes on the Making of Apocalypse Now which were released in 1979.