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 later successes included Daniel ( 1920 ), La Gloire ( 1921 ), and Régine Armand ( 1922 ).

Her other film successes included " Sola " and " Notre Dame De Paris ", alongside Anthony Quinn.

Her successes in Manhattan Melodrama and The Thin Man marked a turning point in her career and she was cast in more important pictures.

Her use of foreign settings and androgynous themes made The Rose of Versailles and Orpheus no Mado " enormous successes ".

Her successes in theatre include the Royal Court Theatre and Broadway productions of Home.

Her film successes slowed a little during the 1950s and she also began appearing in television and on the stage.

Her successes at Wimbledon continued.

But several songwriting successes followed for artists like Billy Walker (" She Goes Walking Through My Mind ," " Traces of a Woman ," " It's Time to Love Her "), Cal Smith (" You Can't Housebreak a Tomcat ", " It Takes Me All Night Long "), and Nat Stuckey (" Sweet Thang And Cisco ").

Her melodrama Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham ... became India's highest-grossing film in the overseas market in 2001, and is one of her greatest commercial successes to date.

Her successes led to the conviction of many violators of the Volstead Act during Prohibition years.

Her film career has included both commercial and critical successes, ranging from teen romantic comedies such as 10 Things I Hate About You ( 1999 ) to dark art house pictures such as The Business of Strangers ( 2001 ).

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 husband Gennady, who could not deal with all Artamonova's successes, had by this time become an alcoholic and seen his own speed skating career vanish.

The next album Untitled, of 1992, featured the minor successes " Johnny Have You Seen Her " and " Chase the Clouds Away ".

Her films included the box office successes The Cock-Eyed World ( 1929 ), the semi-silent The Bridge of San Luis Rey ( 1929 ), and This Is the Night ( 1932 ).

Her other successes included The Rains Came ( 1939 ), Waterloo Bridge ( 1940 ), Beyond Tomorrow ( 1940 ), Dance, Girl, Dance ( 1940 ), The Mortal Storm ( 1940 ), and Kings Row ( 1942 ).

He later emigrated to America where he wrote Leave Her to Heaven ( February 1940 ), a drama set in London and Westcliff-on-Sea in Essex, which was shortly followed by major successes with Old Acquaintance ( NY December 1940-May 1941 ) and The Voice of the Turtle ( 1943 ), which ran for three seasons in New York and was filmed with Ronald Reagan.

" Her other successes included The Canterville Ghost ( 1944 ), Our Vines Have Tender Grapes ( 1945 ), and the first sound version of The Secret Garden ( 1949 ), but she was unable to make the transition to adult roles.

Films of this type became more common in early 2000s, as Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Amélie, Brotherhood of the Wolf, Y Tu Mama Tambien and Talk to Her enjoyed great successes in USA cinemas and home video sales.

Her solo albums were moderate successes.

Her final role in Now and Forever was taken by Carole Lombard, and provided Lombard with one of her earliest significant successes.

Her 1923 book The End of the House of Alard became a best-seller, and gave her prominence ; it was followed by other successes and her books enjoyed worldwide sales.

Her many successes include A Successful Calamity ( 1917 ), A Little Journey ( 1918 ), Spring Cleaning ( 1923 ), The Distaff Side ( 1934 ), The Importance of Being Earnest ( which she also directed, 1939 ), When We Are Married ( 1939 ), Ladies in Retirement ( 1940 ), The Pirate ( 1942 ), Ten Little Indians ( 1944 ), Lady Windermere's Fan ( 1947 ), and The Madwoman of Chaillot ( 1948 ).

Follow-up successes included " Have You Seen Her " ( a cover of the Chi-Lites ) and " Pray " ( a beat sampled from Prince's " When Doves Cry " and Faith No More's " We Care a Lot "), which was his biggest hit in the US, peaking at # 2.