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.

* 1904 – The first international rugby league match is played between England and an Other Nationalities team ( Welsh & Scottish players ) in Central Park, Wigan, England.

The Aberdare Athletic Ground was the venue of the first rugby league international between Wales and the New Zealand All Golds on New Year's Day 1908, which was won by the Welsh 9-8.

Shaw & Shrewsbury Team, 1888, The first British or Irish touring rugby team, a private-enterprise trip to Australia and New Zealand

The first tour, although unsanctioned by rugby bodies, had established the notion of touring Northern Hemisphere sporting sides to Southern Hemisphere locations.

Three years after the first tour, the Western Province union invited rugby bodies in Britain to tour South Africa.

The Premiership Cup then made its historic first trip to Brisbane, a traditionally rugby league focused city.

This first game was a lot like rugby but much closer to the modern day version of football than soccer.

It came two years before an inter-club rugby game under the auspices of the Rugby Football Union would be played in England ; though it must be remembered that rugby had been codified 24 years before this in 1845 and played by many schools, universities and clubs even before the laws were first put on paper.

Canadian football used the rugby scrimmage unaltered until near the end of the 19th Century, when, regionally at first, under the influence of the American scrimmage, the number of players in the scrimmage was limited to three -- a " centre scrimmager " bound on either side by props called " side scrimmagers ".

The history of the rugby ground begins with the first stands appearing for spectators in the ground in 1881 – 1882.

* 1870 – The first game of rugby in New Zealand is played in Nelson between Nelson College and the Nelson Rugby Football Club.

* 1871 – The first international rugby football match, England v. Scotland, is played in Edinburgh at Raeburn Place.

* 1878 – The first rugby match under floodlights takes place in Salford, between Broughton and Swinton.

He was particularly fond of rugby and was the referee of the first ever French championship rugby union final on 20 March 1892 between Racing Club de France and Stade Français.

In 1845, the first football laws were written by Rugby School pupils ; other significant events in the early development of rugby include the Blackheath Club's decision to leave the Football Association in 1863 and the split between rugby union and rugby league in 1895.

Significant events in the early development of rugby football were the production of the first set of written football laws at Rugby School in 1845, which was followed by the ' Cambridge Rules ' drawn up in 1848.

The first rugby football international took place on 27 March 1871, played between England and Scotland.

1883 was also the year the first rugby sevens tournament at Melrose, the Melrose Sevens, which is still held annually.

Between 1905 and 1908, all three major Southern Hemisphere rugby countries sent their first touring teams to the Northern Hemisphere: New Zealand in 1905, followed by South Africa in 1906 and then Australia in 1908.

The Home Nations Championship, between the four British Isles teams, was the first international rugby union tournament.

* 1895 – The first game of what would become known as rugby league football is played, in England, starting the 1895 – 96 Northern Rugby Football Union season.