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.

* Albert I, the first monkey in outer space ( 1948 )

Goeldi's marmoset was first described in 1904, making Callimico one of the more recent monkey genera to be described.

The first recombinant DNA molecule was created by Paul Berg in 1972 when he combined DNA from the monkey virus SV40 with that of the lambda virus.

* June 14 – Albert II, a rhesus monkey, becomes the first primate to enter space, on U. S. Hermes project V-2 rocket Blossom IVB, but is killed on impact at return.

* June 11 – The first monkey astronaut, Albert I, is launched into space from White Sands, New Mexico.

Ignoring punctuation, spacing, and capitalization, a monkey typing letters uniformly at random has a chance of one in 26 of correctly typing the first letter of Hamlet.

For example, the immortal monkey could randomly type G as its first letter, G as its second, and G as every single letter thereafter, producing an infinite string of Gs ; at no point must the monkey be " compelled " to type anything else.

If the hypothetical monkey has a typewriter with 90 equally likely keys that include numerals and punctuation, then the first typed keys might be " 3. 14 " ( the first three digits of pi ) with a probability of ( 1 / 90 )< sup > 4 </ sup >, which is 1 / 65, 610, 000.

In " To Be A Somebody ", he is notably subjected to monkey chants from a member of a skinhead gang during the investigation into the murder of Albie Kinsella's first victim, an Asian shopkeeper ; the offending skinhead is arrested for racial harassment on the orders of Bilborough.

It includes chapters on starting an underground press, guerrilla radio, guerrilla television, what to bring to a demonstration that ’ s expected to be violent, how to make an assortment of home-made bombs, first aid for street fighters, legal advice, how to seek political asylum, shoplifting techniques, stealing credit cards, monkey warfare, gun laws, and identification papers.

Upon its discovery, the Philippine Eagle was first called the monkey-eating eagle because of reports from natives of Bonga, Samar, where the species was first discovered, that it preyed exclusively on monkeys ; from these reports it gained its generic name, from the Greek pithecus (" ape or monkey ") and phagus (" eater of ").

This may be due in part to the fact that the first examined specimen was found to have undigested pieces of a monkey in its stomach.

The first scene of the movie sets up the danger of the " Sumatran Rat-Monkey ", a hybrid creature that, " according to legend ", resulted from the rape of tree monkeys on Skull Island by plague rats: Stewart ( Bill Ralston ), an explorer returning from the depths of the island with his guide and team, is carrying a rat-monkey in a cage and is stopped by fierce warrior natives that demand the return of the monkey.

At some point between 1850 and 1880, a local legend developed about the " Chalvey Stab Monkey " involving an organ grinder and a stabbed monkey ; the first person to get blind drunk on the anniversary of the monkey's funeral is declared " Mayor of Chalvey ".

The proud owner of a young specimen at Pencarrow garden near Bodmin in Cornwall was showing it to a group of friends, and one made the remark " It would puzzle a monkey to climb that "; as the species had no existing popular name, first ' monkey puzzler ', then ' monkey puzzle ' stuck.

In 1842, Barnum introduced his first major hoax, a creature with the head of a monkey and the tail of a fish, known as the " Feejee " mermaid.

The zoo also has breeding firsts, including the first black rhino born in Britain in 1958, the first squirrel monkey born in captivity in 1953 and the first chimpanzee born in Europe in 1934.

He first distinguishes himself by bravely entering the Water Curtain Cave on the mountain ; for this feat, his monkey tribe gives him the title of " Handsome Monkey King ".