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

At first Matilda could not believe her own eyes.

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.

It was her first smile.

And that is the way I first saw her when my Uncle brought her into his antique store.

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

This included Mamma, jolly, generous, and pretty, with whom they all fell in love, just as Papa had first fallen in love with her Mamma before he chose her ; ;

And just as `` Laurie '' Lawrence was first attracted to bright Jo March, who found him immature by her high standards, and then had to content himself with her younger sister Amy, so Joe Jastrow, who had also been writing Henrietta before he came to Johns Hopkins, had to content himself with her younger sister, pretty Rachel.

The first thing to do is get her some money by a temporary but definite adjustment pending a final disposition of the case.

She was more excited than frightened at the prospect of having her first child in a foreign land.

Even the first wave of homesickness had passed, although there were moments when Captain Heard pointed out on his compass the direction of Bradford that she felt a little twinge at her heart.

Cautiously she sampled her first pineapple and another fruit whose taste she likened to that of `` a rich pear ''.

The first royalty whom Mama ever waited on in the White House was Queen Marie of Rumania, who came to a State dinner given in her honor on October 21, 1926.

Perhaps Mrs. Meynell would do me the undeserved kindness to keep my own copy of the first edition of my first book, with all its mementos of her and the dear ones.

Meynell once again paid his debts and it was Katie, rather than Thompson, whose life was soon ended, for she died in childbirth in April, 1901, in the first year of her marriage.

Catherine's first war against the Grand Turk had ended in 1774 with a peace treaty quite favorable to her.

To consolidate what her Navy had won, the Czarina was fortunate that, for the first time in Russian history, her land forces enjoyed absolute unity of command under her favorite Giaour.

Since she could not act, one part suited her as well as any other, and so she was the first person to offer Mr. Lincoln a glass of water, holding it up to the box, high above her head, to Miss Harris, who had asked for it.

Moreover, her acquaintance with Vadim, who attended the audition, influenced her further life and career.

Kelley, having heard of Flockhart, wanted her to audition for the contract part.

It was during her performances in the carnival that Day first caught the attention of Barney Rapp, who sought a girl vocalist and asked if Day would like to audition for the job.

After seeing Trevor's latest porno film, Bletch decides they need a new pornstar, and Trevor choose Lucille ; he drugs her and tries to rape her as an audition but gets accidentally caught by Robert.

At the audition, Gellar read both her own lines and those of Harper, impressing the directors enough to cast her in the role.

Geri Halliwell had seen the ad but went skiing in Spain and missed the audition because her face got sunburnt.

Tinker passed the first audition, but could not attend the second because her train was delayed due to a bomb scare, and she did not want to go in late.

Chisholm passed the first audition, but could not attend the second because she had problems with her tonsils.

Smith intended to audition for the role of Bart Simpson, but the casting director felt her voice was too high, so she was given the role of Lisa instead.

Smith had initially been asked to audition for the role of Lisa's brother Bart, but casting director Bonita Pietila thought her voice was too high.

For an audition into the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York she used a scene from her uncle's 1923 play The Torch-Bearers.

On her way to the audition, she was so nervous about getting a role that she felt defined her life, she nearly wrecked her car.

For example, Loretta Long was chosen to play Susan when the children who saw her audition stood up and sang along with her rendition of " I'm a Little Teapot ".

Doillon has commented that in the original screenplay her character was written to be 14 years old, he was so impressed with Binoche's audition he changed the character's age to 17 to allow her take the role.

At an after-ballet party, arranged by her aunt as a surreptitious audition, she meets Boris Lermontov ( Anton Walbrook ), the ruthless but charismatic impresario of the Ballet Lermontov, who questions her: Lermontov: Why do you want to dance? Vicky: Why do you want to live? Lermontov: Well, I don't know exactly why, but ...

Colbert studied at Washington Irving High School where her speech teacher, Alice Rossetter, encouraged her to audition for a play she had written.

* 1949 – Former First Lady of the Philippines Aurora Quezon, 61, is assassinated while en route to dedicate a hospital in memory of her late husband ; her daughter and 10 others are also killed.

At the invitation of an acquaintance of her mother, she modelled in a fashion show in 1949.

" Later in life Montgomery refused to allow his son David to have anything to do with his grandmother and he refused to attend her funeral in 1949.

On the evening of October 6, 1949, Ivinskaya was arrested at her apartment by the KGB.

Simone de Beauvoir wrote in 1949 that Épître au Dieu d ' Amour was " the first time we see a woman take up her pen in defense of her sex " making Christine de Pizan perhaps the West's first feminist, or protofeminist as some scholars prefer to say.

Rosenthal had been her attorney since 1949, when he represented her in her uncontested divorce action against her second husband, songwriter George W. Weidler.

A much different theory is briefly discussed by Fabricius and elaborated more by Helga Bruhn in her book " Dannebrog " from 1949.

She won a listeners ' poll by Radio Mirror magazine as the top ranking comedienne of 1948 – 1949, receiving her award at the end of an Our Miss Brooks broadcast that March.

But she was also a hit with the critics ; a winter 1949 poll of newspaper and magazine radio editors taken by Motion Picture Daily named her the year's best radio comedienne.

The undated first issue, published in December 1953, featured Marilyn Monroe from her 1949 nude calendar shoot and sold over 50, 000 copies.

On 12 July 1949, her grave was again opened.

Their final film, entitled Love Happy ( 1949 ), featured Vera-Ellen, considered to be the best dancer among her colleagues and professionals in the half century.

Margaret Mitchell was struck by a speeding automobile as she crossed Peachtree Street at 13th Street in Atlanta with her husband, John Marsh, while on her way to see a movie on the evening of August 11, 1949.

In addition, Davis downplayed her Hollywood goals: MGM promotional material in 1949 said that her " greatest ambition " was to have a " successful happy marriage "; decades later, in 1975, she would say, " I was never really a career woman but one only because I hadn't found the man I wanted to marry.

The marriage was faltering and, in 1949, Indira and the two sons moved to Delhi to live with Jawaharlal, ostensibly so that Indira could assist her father in his duties, acting as official hostess, and helping run the huge residence.

After the defeat of her husband's government in the Chinese Civil War in 1949, Madame Chiang followed her husband to Taiwan, while her sister Soong Ching-ling stayed on the mainland, siding with the communists.