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

Next day a ship arrived with an English pilot, his leadsman, an English youth, and the first Hindu the Judsons and Newells had ever seen.

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.

But as he remarks in his preface to The Walnut Trees, `` a novel can hardly ever be rewritten '', and `` when this one appears in its final form, the form of the first part will no doubt be radically changed ''.

There's more reading and instruction to be heard on discs than ever before, although the spoken rather than the sung word is as old as Thomas Alva Edison's first experiment in recorded sound.

The ledger was full of most precise information: date of laying, length of incubation period, number of chick reaching the first week, second week, fifth week, weight of hen, size of rooster's wattles and so on, all scrawled out in a hand that looked more Chinese than English, the most jagged and sprawling Alex had ever seen.

It would be the first time I had ever been completely alone with a girl I loved.

The truth is, however, that when Mel Chandler first reported to the regiment the only steed he had ever ridden was a swivel chair and the only weapon he had ever wielded was a pencil.

She could always predict what Stanley was going to do, ever since she first met him.

Until late last Saturday afternoon Palmer had played seven consecutive rounds of golf at the Masters -- four last year and three this -- without ever being out of first place.

All belong to the collection being given to Wilmington over a period of years by Mrs. Sloan, who has cherished such revelatory items ever since she first studied with Sloan at the Art Students League, New York, in the 1920's.

Though that may be unfair since Ben Cooper, John's first son, came along early in 1938, the cutest baby you ever saw and a blessing that he looked all Cooper from fontanel to pink toes, nary a trace of Edythe.

Very few committees ever looked past the first few photos.

Journalist Noah Brooks reported, " No man ever before made such an impression on his first appeal to a New York audience.

* In 1896 Frank Samuelsen and George Harbo from Norway became the first people to ever row across the Atlantic Ocean.

" She first met Poirot in the story Cards on the Table and has been bothering him ever since.

* " The Tuesday Night Club " ( short story ) featured Miss Marple for the first time ever.

In his journal for November 6, 1860, he wrote: " At Town House, and cast my vote for Lincoln and the Republican candidates generally — the first vote I ever cast for a President and State officers.

* 1888 – An audio recording of English composer Arthur Sullivan's " The Lost Chord ", one of the first recordings of music ever made, is played during a press conference introducing Thomas Edison's phonograph in London, England.

* 1958 – Brojen Das from Bangladesh swims across the English Channel in a competition, as the first Bangali as well as the first Asian to ever do it.

In 2004, Pope John Paul II's efforts to unite Europe were honoured with an ‘ Extraordinary Charlemagne Medal ’, which was awarded for the first time ever.

Klaus Quirini as DJ Heinrich was the first DJ ever.

* 1796 – The first elephant ever seen in the United States arrives from India.

On 17 July 2010, the band performed their first UK gig in almost four years to a crowd of around 30, 000 at Latitude Festival in Henham Park, Southwold.

But his first real gig was at the Rascals Comedy Club as part of the TV show The Rascals Comedy Hour on October 18, 1990.

" This is my first gig that required me to know details about his job.

" The band played its first gig at CBGB on August 16, 1974, on the same bill as another new act, Angel and the Snake, soon to be renamed Blondie.

Reconstituted as the Dead Boys, they played their first CBGB gig in late July.

Adopting a new name, the group played its first gig as the Sex Pistols on November 6, 1975, at St. Martin's School of Art and soon attracted a small but ardent following.

In Washington, D. C., the Controls played their first gig in spring 1977, but the city's second wave really broke the following year with acts such as Urban Verbs, Half Japanese, D ' Chumps, Rudements and Shirkers.

For their first gig, at Harris-Millis Cafeteria ( a location students fondly call " The Grundle ") at the University of Vermont on Dec. 2, 1983, the band was billed as " Blackwood Convention.

degli Antoni, Doughty, Boston-based upright bass player Sebastian Steinberg, and Israeli drummer Yuval Gabay ( a collaborator with Zorn, and David Linton ) played their first gig, as " M. Doughty's Soul Coughing ", at the Knitting Factory on June 15, 1992, a late-Monday night slot that Doughty cadged from his boss because nobody else wanted it.

They played their first gig as " Talking Heads " opening for the Ramones at CBGB on June 20, 1975.

The new group played their first gig at The Pindar of Wakefield on 4 October 1982.

" Five years later, he was working as a doorman at the Heritage nightclub in San Diego — where artists of every genre performed — when he did his first paid gig for $ 6.

Sharkey was also responsible for giving the band their first name: at the introduction to a gig at Saint Joseph's Secondary School in Derry on 16 March 1976, Feargal Sharkey was asked the name of the band and quickly replied " The Hot Rods ".

On 12 July 1962 the band played their first gig at the Marquee Club billed as " the Rollin ' Stones ".

Their first Roxy gig was only their second live appearance.

** The Folk-Rock band Fairport Convention plays their first gig in Golders Green, north London.

They played their first gig as the Stone Roses on 23 October 1984, supporting Pete Townshend at an anti-heroin concert at the Moonlight Club in London, Brown having sent the demo with an accompanying letter stating " I'm surrounded by skagheads, I wanna smash ' em.

The band played their first headlining gig on 4 January 1985, supported by Last Party, after original headliners Mercenary Skank had pulled out.

By this time they had started to build a sizeable following in Manchester, and their first gig in the North of England at Clouds in Preston attracted a large audience, but descended into a riot after technical problems and friction between the bands on the bill.

The Roses embarked on a tour of Sweden in April, with their first gig in Manchester following on their return, at International 1, a venue run by future Stone Roses managers Matthew Cummings and Gareth Evans.

A more permanent replacement was found in the form of former-Waterfront bassist Mani ( Gary Mounfield ), who played his first gig with the band in November 1987.

The album launched with his first live solo gig at the Élysée Montmartre theatre in Paris, France.

She scored her first professional gig, unaware that she would soon be center stage.

He first recorded with a Midwestern jazz ensemble The Wolverines in 1924, after which he played briefly for the Detroit-based Jean Goldkette Orchestra before joining Frankie " Tram " Trumbauer for an extended gig at the Arcadia Ballroom in St. Louis, Missouri.

After their 1980 East Berlin gig, when they became one of the first major Western bands to perform in a Communist country, Tangerine Dream became very popular behind the Iron Curtain.