Or was it her own first ball as mistress of this big house, a Van Rensselaer bride from way upstate near Albany, from Rensselaerwyck.

That first entry there is the Vermont Flumenophobe, the earliest and one of the most successful of my eighty-three varieties -- great big scapulars and hardly any primaries at all.

Before your first training experiment has ended there will be a big improvement and almost before you know it you'll be raising and lowering yourself just like a veteran!!

While accounts of the progress of the tsunami came in from various points in the Pacific ( Midway reported it was covered with nine feet of water ), the Hawaiian station made its calculations and notified the military services and the police that the first big wave would arrive at Honolulu at 23:30 Greenwich time.

In my day the first requirement for a cop was to look like the law, big and tough.

Over the first five frames, Jack Fisher, the big righthander who figures to be in the middle of Oriole plans for a drive on the 1961 American League pennant, held the A's scoreless while yielding three scattered hits.

Compared to the big, established magazines, my first efforts seemed feeble indeed.

Remember how by lack of two big theaters Chicago missed the first visit of the Royal Danish Ballet??

The first meeting was held in Faneuil Hall, a great big place where we were able to meet members from all the other states.

The railroads were the first big businesses in America, and the Pennsylvania was one of the largest of them all.

AZ's second championship was the first Eredivisie title in 28 years, and the first time since then that the Eredivisie was won by a team other than the " big three " ( Ajax, PSV and Feyenoord ).

Monk Montgomery was the first bass player to tour with the Fender bass guitar, with Lionel Hampton's postwar big band.

The vital meeting was held at the Royal Hotel on 1 August 1885, W M C Hickson served as the chairman, and other notables in attendance included all the big sugar mill owners of that time, W G Farquhar, F L Nott, S McDougall, T Penny, S H Bravo and A H Young, all to become the first directors of the Company.

Day started her career as a big band singer in 1939, but only began to be noticed after her first hit recording, " Sentimental Journey ", in 1945.

Mediaite columnist Paul Levinson noted that " The Monkees were the first example of something created in a medium – in this case, a rock group on television – that jumped off the screen to have big impact in the real world.

In 1770, a group of Wentworth grant holders asked Allen to defend their case before New York's Supreme Court, a move that presented Allen with his first big stage.

Sullivan's failure to scoop the TV industry with Presley made him determined to get the next big sensation first.

In casino play the first betting round begins with the player to the left of the big blind, and subsequent rounds begin with the player to the dealer's left.

Solan secures funding from an Arab oil sheik who happens to be vacationing in Flåklypa, and to enter the race, the trio builds a gigantic racing car: Il Tempo Gigante — a fabulous construction with two extremely big engines ( weighing 2. 8 tons alone and making the seismometer in Bergen show 7. 8 Richter when started the first time ), a body made out of copper, a spinning radar ( that turns out to be useful when Blodstrupmoen starts engaging in smoke warfare during the race ) and its own blood bank.

The most familiar felid is the domestic cat, which first became associated with humans about 10, 000 years ago ; but the family includes all other wild cats, including the big cats.

Muscles of the big toe: abductor hallucis stretches medially along the border of the sole, from the calcaneus to the first digit.

Isidro Sepúlveda, William Jackson and George Hills explicitly refute it ( Sepúlveda points out that if such a fact had actually happened, it would have caused a big crisis in the Alliance supporting the Archduke Charles ; George Hills explains that the story was first accounted by the Marquis of San Felipe, who wrote his book " Comentarios de la guerra de España e historia de su rey Phelipe V el animoso " in 1725, more than twenty years after the fact ; the marquis was not an eye-witness and cannot be considered as a reliable source for the facts that took place in Gibraltar in 1704.

The piece premiered first in New York rather than London, in an ( unsuccessful ) attempt to secure the American copyright, and was another big success with both critics and audiences.

Los Angeles held a big parade on the first Gay Pride Day.

He also wrote his first pieces of songwriting around this time for this band.

Numan re-evaluated his career and went in a harsher, more industrial direction with his songwriting on the album Sacrifice — for the first time he played almost all the instruments himself.

Hawkes first made use of Pressly's songwriting on her 1993 solo debut for EMI, while Pressly and Clark first worked together in the band King L in 1995.

Simon paying tribute to musician Chuck Berry and Leonard Cohen who were the recipients of the first annual PEN Awards for songwriting excellence, at the JFK Presidential Library, on February 26, 2012.

On February 26, 2012, Simon paid tribute to fellow musicians Chuck Berry and Leonard Cohen who were the recipients of the first annual PEN Awards for songwriting excellence at the JFK Presidential Library in Boston, Massachusetts.

Peter Hammill of Van der Graaf Generator was also a major influence on his songwriting and vocal delivery, which is especially notable on the first two Marillion albums.

A staff writer contract with a publisher is a natural first step for any professional songwriting career, with some writers outgrowing the set-up once they achieve a degree of success and a desire for greater independence.

Plant and Page immediately hit it off with a shared musical passion and began their writing collaboration with reworkings of earlier blues songs, although Plant would receive no songwriting credits on the band's first album, allegedly because he was still under contract to CBS Records at the time.

This song represents the first major songwriting effort of Bootsy Collins as a member of Parliament-Funkadelic, and is widely considered the introduction to his musical persona.

Feeling the tracks on the first album were extremely weak, Turbin was fired from the band, and Ian and Benante started a songwriting partnership with Ian writing all the lyrics, and Benante writing the music.

As with the first album, songwriting credits were split evenly between Gates and Griffin-Royer.

He started his songwriting career in amateur theatre, first at The International Youth Centre in 1952 where he and a friend wrote a revue together called IYC Revue 52.

He first gained widespread recognition through his pop songwriting, penning numerous hits for the stable of young male singers promoted by artist manager and music publisher Larry Parnes.

It was followed by " Will You Love Me Tomorrow ", written by husband-wife songwriting team Gerry Goffin and Carole King ; the song went on to become either the first Billboard number-one hit by an African-American girl group or the first Number One Hit by any girl group.

This heightened degree of emotional introspection was inspired by her love of Bob Dylan's folk songwriting and as such, DeShannon can be seen as one of the first American artists to attempt to absorb folk sensibilities into rock music.

The core of the band is the two remaining founder members – Jim Kerr ( vocals, songwriting ) and Charlie Burchill ( guitars, keyboards after 1990, other instruments, songwriting ) – and drummer Mel Gaynor ( who first joined the band in 1982 ).

Another Abandoned Luncheonette single, " Las Vegas Turnaround ", was written about ( and mentioned by first name ) Hall's girlfriend, flight attendant and future songwriting collaborator Sara Allen.

He joined ASCAP in 1931 and began working for Ralph Peer ’ s Southern Music Company in 1932 as a songwriter, the first music firm to occupy the new Brill Building, famous as a New York songwriting mecca.

He first achieved fame in 1992 as the guitarist with Suede, forging a songwriting partnership with Brett Anderson, at the time an instant phenomenon in UK pop music.

Their MySpace page first described the project as " a lushly orchestrated mix of eclectic songwriting that is sure to conjure up memories of 1997's When the Red King Comes " and stressed its " more mature approach to arrangements, lyrics, and instrumentation.

Noel Gallagher was the primary songwriter in Oasis, and on the group's first few albums he was the sole songwriting contributor.