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

There was an artificial lake just out of sight in the first stand of trees, fed by a half dozen springs that popped out of the ground above the hillside orchard.

The first part of the road was steep, but it leveled off after the second bend and curled gradually into the valley.

No one was behind it, but in the rear wall of the office I noticed, for the first time, a door which had been left partially open.

The herd was watered and then thrown onto a broad grass flat which was to be the first night's bedground.

Once again, Tom Horn was the first and most likely suspect, and he was brought in for questioning immediately.

For Matilda, it was the first she had known in many a night.

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.

Stevens was grunting over the last empty pocket when Russ abruptly rose and lunged toward Carmer's hat, which had tumbled half-a-dozen feet away when he first fell.

The Indian's arm whipped sidewise -- there was a flash of amber and froth, the crash of the bottle shattering against the side of the first car.

It was her first smile.

At first, I thought he was out of his head, talking wildly like this.

Hell, I gave him the first decent job he ever had, six, seven -- how many years ago was it, Rob ''??

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

School began in August, the hottest part of the year, and for the first few days Miss Langford was very lenient with the children, letting them play a lot and the new ones sort of get acquainted with one another.

It was just as well that the ignorant Dandy enjoyed himself to the hilt that first evening, for the room was to become his prison cell.

`` Bastards '', he would say, `` all I did was put a beat to that Vivaldi stuff, and the first chair clobbered me ''!!

In 1961 the first important legislative victory of the Kennedy Administration came when the principle of national responsibility for local economic distress won out over a `` state's-responsibility '' proposal -- provision was made for payment for unemployment relief by nation-wide taxation rather than by a levy only on those states afflicted with manpower surplus.

The first systematic thinking about this Pandora's box within Pandora's boxes was done four years ago by Fred Ikle, a frail, meek-mannered Swiss-born sociologist.

The smell at first was more surprising than unpleasant.

His collaboration with Washington, begun when he was the general's aide during the Revolution, was resumed when he entered the first Cabinet as Secretary of the Treasury.

In the late 1930s, Patton was assigned command of Fort Myer, Virginia.

A funeral service was held in the chapel at Fort Myer, Virginia, after which Groves was interred in Arlington National Cemetery next to his brother Allen, who had died of pneumonia in 1916.

In 2005, Arlington National Cemetery acquired of additional land from the National Park Service, along with from the Department of Defense that was part of Fort Myer and that is the site of the Navy Annex .< ref >

After a year as an instructor at the Cavalry School at Fort Riley, he was attached to the General Staff from 1921 – 23 and assigned to the U. S. 3rd Cavalry Regiment, Fort Myer, Virginia, from 1923 – 25.

Rabbi Myer S. Levy was chaplain to the state legislature in 1885.

As a result he was unable to continue his formal education beyond a basic level and in 1968 at age 16 Tatchell started work as a designer, sign-writer and window-dresser in Melbourne's principal department stores, first Waltons and then Myer.

" Within the Department of War, it was assigned to the U. S. Army Signal Corps under Brigadier General Albert J. Myer.

Through 2011, Carew had the best all-time career batting average of all Twins (. 334 ), the second best on-base percentage (. 393 ; tied with Buddy Myer ), was fourth in intentional walks ( 99 ), and was fifth in hits ( 2, 085 ) and stolen bases ( 271 ; while second in caught stealing, at 123 ).

The Signal Corps was created and deployed for the first time, through the leadership of Albert J. Myer.

From 1952 to 1953, he was the official vocal soloist for The United States Army Band ( Pershing's Own ) and a tenor section member in the United States Army Band Chorus ( an element of Pershing's Own ) assigned at Fort Myer in the Washington, D. C. Military District.

On April 11, 2011, Dempsey was officially sworn in as 37th Chief of Staff of the United States Army at a ceremony at Fort Myer.

Exactly a year later, Brazin stated that after a rocky start ( with staff recruitment issues and aligning products with the typical Myer customer ), Virgin At Myer was up 45 per cent on comparative sales and was performing well.

Virgin Entertainment's Australian peak was reached in 2006 with 24 Virgin Megastores, 62 Virgin At Myer outlets, and 2 Virgin Books and Music stores in operation.

Through 2010, he was third all-time in career hits ( behind Shawn Green ), fourth in batting average ( behind Buddy Myer ), and fifth in RBIs ( behind Sid Gordon ) among Jewish major league baseball players.

In 1907 he was assigned to the Aeronautical Division, U. S. Signal Corps at Fort Myer, Virginia.

Thomas Selfridge was buried not far from the site of the accident, in Section 3, Lot 2158, Grid QR-13 / 14 of Arlington National Cemetery ; the cemetery is adjacent to Fort Myer.

On Feb. 4, 1881, the post was renamed for Brigadier General Albert J. Myer, who established the Signal School of Instruction for Army and Navy Officers there in 1869.

Fort Myer was the site of the first flight of an aircraft at a military installation.

" Quarters One " on Fort Myer, which was originally built as the garrison commander's quarters, has been the home of the Chief of Staff of the United States Army since 1908 when Major General J. Franklin Bell took up residence.

The first radio telecommunications was started at Fort Myer.